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Christianity further spread eastward under the Parthian Empire, which displayed a high tolerance of religious matters. [7] According to tradition, Christian proselytism in Central Asia, starting with Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau, was put under the responsibility of Saint Thomas the Apostle, and started in the first century AD. [8]
Christian missionaries in Central Asia (1 C, 30 P) Christianity in Mongolia (6 C, 2 P) Q. Christianity in Qinghai (5 P) T. Christianity in Tajikistan (2 C, 3 P)
The complete disappearance of the Nestorian dioceses in Central Asia probably stemmed from a combination of persecution, disease, and isolation: "what survived the Mongols did not survive the Black Death of the fourteenth century." [121] In many parts of Central Asia, Christianity had died out decades before Timur's campaigns. The surviving ...
Turkic Christians are ethnic Turkic people who follow Christianity. The Christian Turkic peoples represent an intersection of Turkic and Christian cultural and historical dynamics, particularly within the context of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Historically, the most prominent group within this category were the Bulgars.
A turning point in Jewish-Christian relations occurred when the Talmud was put "on trial" in 1239 by Pope Gregory IX because of contents that mocked the central figures of Christianity. [356] Talmudic Judaism came to be seen as so different from biblical Judaism that old Augustinian obligations to leave the Jews alone no longer applied.
Category: Christianity in Asia by region. 1 language. ... Christianity in Central Asia (14 C) Christianity in East Asia (9 C) Christianity in South Asia (8 C)
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