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United Christian Church of Dubai in Dubai. The primary registered protestant Churches in the United Arab Emirates are Anglican, Evangelical, and the Mar Thoma Church. The Anglican Communion is represented by the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. Evangelical Churches exist from various ...
In 2020 there were nearly 850,000 expatriates in the UAE who are Catholics, representing almost 9% of the total population, [1] largely from the Philippines, India, South America, Lebanon, Africa, Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Portugal, Spain, France and other parts of Europe, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
The 2022 population of the UAE stands at 9.4 million, [3] Only approximately 20% of residents are UAE citizens. [4] According to the CIA World Fact Book, 76% of the residents are Muslim, 9% are Christian, other (primarily Hindu and Buddhist, less than 5% of the population consists of Parsi, Baha'i, Druze, Sikh, Ahmadi, Ismaili, Dawoodi Bohra Muslim, and Jewish) 15%. [5]
Islam is the majority and official religion in the United Arab Emirates, professed by 74.5% of the population as of 2020. 63.3% are Sunni, 6.7% are Shia, while 4.4% follow another branch of Islam. [1] The Al Nahyan and Al Maktoum ruling families adhere to the Maliki school of jurisprudence.
Indonesia's 29.4 million Christians constituted 10.47% of the country's population in 2023, with 7.41% Protestant (20.8 million) and 3.06% Catholic (8.6 million). Some provinces in Indonesia are majority Christian. In Indonesia, the word Kristen (lit. ' Christian ') refers to Protestantism, while Catholicism is referred to as Katolik.
After the region fell under the reign of the Sasanian Empire in the early third century, many of the inhabitants in Eastern Arabia were introduced to Christianity following the eastward dispersal of the religion by Mesopotamian Christians. [5] However, it was not until the fourth century that Christianity gained popularity in the region. [6]
Ties between the UAE and the Holy See are largely influenced and symbolised by historical Christian-Muslim relations.As a Muslim country, the setting up of the UAE's relations with the Holy See at an ambassadorial level were seen by many as a boost to the Christian population of the UAE, which numbers around one million people. [2]
Christianity in Indonesia (10 C, 59 P) Christianity in Iran (12 C, 6 P) ... Christianity in the United Arab Emirates (4 C, 3 P) Christianity in Uzbekistan (6 C, 3 P) V.