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A 2013 report by Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary found that Nepal's church was the fastest growing in the world, with an annual growth rate of 10.9% since 1970. [66] Prayer at a Christian healing festival held in 2012 in Bhaktapur.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Christianity is reportedly the fastest growing religion in Iran with an average annual rate of 5.2%. [166] A 2015 study estimates between 100,000 and 500,000 believers Christians from a Muslim background living in Iran, most of them evangelical Christians. [113]
Pashupatinath Temple in the capital Kathmandu is a World Heritage Site. Religion in Nepal encompasses a wide diversity of groups and beliefs. [2] Nepal is a secular nation and secularism in Nepal under the Interim constitution (Part 1, Article 4) is defined as "Religious and cultural freedom along with the protection of religion and culture handed down from time immemorial."
The first open air Christian musical program was hosted to celebrate the beginning of religious freedom for the first time in Nepal's history. [13] A convent was inaugurated along with a training center in western Nepal in June 2006, a first for western Nepal. [14] Six Nepalese youths went to World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany. [15]
He later received an offer of study in the United States, where he was baptized and became a member of Christian Reformed Church of North America. [3] In 2004, Rev. Arbin Pokhrel decided to return to Nepal to begin planting Reformed churches in the country. [1] [2] In 2005, the missionary founded a church in Kathmandu. Later, as the number of ...
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According to research by Christerson and Flory, "INC Christianity is the fastest-growing Christian group in America and possibly around the world." While overall Protestant church attendance shrunk by 0.05% on average per year between 1970 and 2010, "independent neo-charismatic congregations", of which INC congregations are a subset, grew by an ...