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The right to freedom of religion in the United Kingdom is provided for in all three constituent legal systems, by devolved, national, European, and international law and treaty. Four constituent nations compose the United Kingdom, resulting in an inconsistent religious character , and there is no state church for the whole kingdom.
A few countries in Europe continue to have state religions. [45] [46] Most countries in the former Eastern bloc have government programs for the restitution of religious property confiscated by previous socialist governments. [47] [48] [49] Many countries in Europe also provide government funding or other privileges for registered religious groups.
A few countries in Europe continue to have state religions. [1] [2] Most countries in the former Eastern bloc have government programs for the restitution of religious property confiscated by previous socialist governments. [3] [4] [5] Many countries in Europe also provide government funding or other privileges for registered religious groups.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
For two years in the 1950s, churches were banned by the pre-democracy KMT regime from using Chinese Bibles written with Latin letters instead of Chinese characters. The ban was lifted with an encouragement to use Chinese characters. A 1973 Taiwanese translation of the New Testament was the product of cooperation between Protestants and ...
[5] [6] [7]: 24 This "include atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion in surveys"; of that overall category, many may still hold some religious beliefs and some engage in religious practices as well. [6]
Forms of Christianity have dominated religious life in what is now the United Kingdom for over 1,400 years. [110] The United Kingdom was formed by the union of previously autonomous states in 1707, [111] [112] [113] and consequently most of the largest religious groups do not have UK-wide organisational structures. While some groups have ...
A report released by the UK's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and a report by the PEW organization studying worldwide restrictions of religious freedom, both have Christians suffering in the highest number of countries, rising from 125 in 2015 to 144 as of 2018.