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Jordan's Arab Christians are exceptionally well integrated in the Jordanian society and enjoy a high level of freedom. [3] All Christian religious ceremonies are allowed to be publicly celebrated in Jordan. [4] Christians are allotted a minimum of 7% of the seats in the Jordanian parliament (9 out of 130 seats). Jordanian Christians hold ...
The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2023, Christians made up 2.1% of Jordan's population. [1] Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholics (115,000 people). [2] Catholics are divided in five Rites:
Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan. Muslims make up about 97.2% of the country's population. [1] [2] A few of them are Shiites. Many Shia in Jordan are refugees from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. [3] The country also boasts one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, coexisting with the rest of the population. They made up ...
“Feminized” worship is exactly what pushed Elijah Wee Sit, a 17-year-old from Toronto, to explore Orthodoxy. “Christianity in North America has become extremely emotional,” Wee Sit, who ...
Today, Christians make up approximately 5% of the Middle Eastern population, down from 13% in the early 20th century. [27] [28] Cyprus is the only Christian majority country in the Middle East, with Christians forming between 76% and 78% of the country's total population, most of them adhering to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
In 2020, Christians made up 2.1% of the country's population; [2] of these, almost half (0.87%) were Orthodox Christian. The Jordanian Eastern Orthodox Christians are believed to number 120,000, most of whom are Arabic speaking or by some accounts more than 300,000. [ 3 ]
Other Christian groups with some recognition include the Free Evangelicals, the Church of the Nazarene, the Assembly of God, the Baptist Church and the Christian and Missionary Alliance. In 2020, there were approximately 14,000 Druze in the country, and 1,000 people following the Baháʼí Faith ; [ 3 ] there were reported to be no Jewish citizens.
The Church of the Redeemer (Arabic: كنيسة الفادي) is the largest church by membership of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, and is located in Amman, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Church of the Redeemer is home to an Arab congregation as well as a meeting place of the English-Speaking Anglican Congregation (ESAC).