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Moldova's constitution provides for freedom of religion and complete separation of church and state, though the constitution cites the "exceptional importance" of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. [2] Discrimination on the basis of religious affiliation is illegal, and incitement to religious and ethnic hatred was made illegal in May 2022. [2]
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
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.
Smaller religious groups include The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Rastafarians, the Salvation Army, and Bahá'ís. Fifteen% do not belong to any religious group. No religious group is a majority in any of the country's six districts. Catholics are found throughout the country.
Metropolitan Church of Chișinău and All Moldova (Moscow Patriarchate) – 3.2 million [citation needed] Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia – 0.4 million [280] [281] Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia (Moldova) (Romanian Patriarchate) – 0.72 million [282] Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate – 0.3 million [citation ...
In the early 2000s, there was an ongoing succession dispute between the two autonomous Eastern Orthodox churches (Moldovan Orthodox Church belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church, and Metropolis of Bessarabia belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church). from an ecclesiastical point of view, this is an administrative only issue (subject to canon laws), not a theological one, as the two belonged ...
Ethnic map of Moldova (2004 data) Ethnic map of Moldova (2014 data) Out of the 2,804,801 people covered by the 2014 Moldovan census, 2,754,719 gave an answer as to their ethnic affiliation. Among them, 2,068,068 or 73.7% declared themselves Moldovans and 192,800 or 6.9% Romanians . [ 24 ]
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.