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  2. Holy See–European Union relations - Wikipedia

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    The disagreements between European Union and Holy See have been: A disagreement over whether to include a reference to Europe's Christian heritage in the European Constitution [4] The European Parliament refused to ratify Rocco Buttiglione as a European Commissioner because he backed the Catholic Church's view on homosexuality [5]

  3. Religion in the European Union - Wikipedia

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    Religion in the European Union is diverse. The largest religion in the EU is Christianity , which accounted for 72.8% of EU population as of 2018 [update] . [ 2 ] Smaller groups include those of Islam , Buddhism , Judaism , Hinduism , and some East Asian religions , most concentrated in Germany and France.

  4. Christianity in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The second-largest Christian group in Europe were the Orthodox, who made up 32% of European Christians. [3] About 19% of European Christians were part of the mainline Protestant tradition. [3] Russia is the largest Christian country in Europe by population, followed by Germany and Italy. [3]

  5. Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe - Wikipedia

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    In membership are most Lutheran and Reformed churches in Europe, the united churches that originated from mergers of those churches, and such pre-Reformation churches as the Waldensians. The European Methodist churches joined the CPCE by a common declaration of church fellowship in 1997. The General Secretary of the CPCE is the Reverend Dr ...

  6. Christian democracy - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, the European Union has the ideas of subsidiarity and personalism embedded within it. [248] The influence of Christian democracy on the European Union is such that one academic has called the European Union a "Christian democracy". [249] Alongside the European Union was the development of European Christian democratic parties.

  7. Religion in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Catholics are the largest Christian group in EU, accounting for 41% of EU population, while Eastern Orthodox make up 10%, and Protestants make up 9%, and other Christians account for 4% of the EU population. Non believer/Agnostic account 17%, Atheist 10%, and Muslim 2% of the EU population. 3% refuse to answer or didn't know. [18]

  8. Christianity and colonialism - Wikipedia

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    Christianity and colonialism are associated with each other by some due to the service of Christianity, in its various denominations (namely Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy), as the state religion of the historical European colonial powers, in which Christians likewise made up the majority. [1]

  9. Catholic Church in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Adherence to Catholicism in Europe (2010) About 35% [1] of the population of Europe today is Catholic, but only about a quarter of all Catholics worldwide reside in Europe. . This is due in part to the movement and immigration at various times of largely Catholic European ethnic groups (such as the Irish, Italians, Poles, Portuguese, and Spaniards) to continents such as the Americas and Austra