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Adventism

Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Amish

The Amish (Amisch; Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins.

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Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin anabaptista, from the Greek ἀναβαπτισμός: ἀνά 're-' and βαπτισμός 'baptism'; Täufer, earlier also Wiedertäufer)Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term Wiedertäufer (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased.

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Andorra

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anglo-America

Anglo-America most often refers to a region in the Americas in which English is the main language and British culture and the British Empire have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Anglo-Irish Treaty

The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.

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Anti-Protestantism

Anti-Protestantism is bias, hatred or distrust against some or all branches of Protestantism and/or its followers, especially when amplified in legal, political, ethic or military measures.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Baháʼí Faith by country

The Baháʼí Faith formed in the late 19th century in the Middle East, later gaining converts in India, East Africa, and the Western world.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Black church

The black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.

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Buddhism by country

This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church by country

The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)." The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names.

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Central Africa

Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Charismatic movement

The charismatic movement in Christianity is a movement within established or mainstream Christian denominations to adopt beliefs and practices of Charismatic Christianity, with an emphasis on baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the use of spiritual gifts (charismata).

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Christian revival

Christian revivalism is increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a Christian church, congregation or society with a local, national or global effect.

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Christianity by country

As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population.

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Christianity in Afghanistan

Christians have historically comprised a small community in Afghanistan.

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Christianity in Australia

Christianity is the largest religion in Australia, with a total of 43.9% of the nation-wide population identifying with a Christian denomination in the 2021 census.

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Christianity in Azerbaijan

Christianity in Azerbaijan is a minority religion.

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Christianity in Bangladesh

Christians in Bangladesh account for 0.30% (roughly 500,000 believers) of the nation's population as of 2022 census.

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Christianity in Bhutan

Christians are estimated to make up approximately 1% of the population in Bhutan, or approximately 8,000 people.

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Christianity in Brunei

Christianity in Brunei is the second largest religion practiced by about 8.7% of the population as of 2022.

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Christianity in Cyprus

Christianity in Cyprus is the largest religion in the country, making up 78% of the island's population.

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Christianity in Denmark

Christianity is a prevalent religion in Denmark; in January 2023, 72.1% of the population of Denmark were members of the Church of Denmark.

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Christianity in Europe

Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe.

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Christianity in Georgia (country)

In 2020, 85.84% of the population in Georgia adhered to Christianity (mainly Georgian Orthodox), 11% were Muslim, 0.1% were Jewish, 0.04% were Baha'i and 3% had no religious beliefs.

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Christianity in Israel

Christianity (Natsrút; al-Masīḥiyya) is the third largest religion in Israel, after Judaism and Islam.

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Christianity in Kazakhstan

Christianity in Kazakhstan is the second most practiced religion after Islam and one of the major religions of Kazakhstan.

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Christianity in Madagascar

Christianity in Madagascar is practiced by 85.3% of Madagascar's population according to the Pew Research Center in 2020.

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Christianity in Nepal

Christianity is, according to the 2011 census, the fifth most practiced religion in Nepal, with 375,699 adherents, or 1.4% of the population.

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Christianity in New Zealand

Christianity in New Zealand dates to the arrival of missionaries from the Church Missionary Society who were welcomed onto the beach at Rangihoua Bay in December 1814.

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Christianity in Singapore

Christians in Singapore constitute 19% of the country's resident population, as of the most recent census conducted in 2020.

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Christianity in Syria

Christians in Syria made up about 10% of the pre-war Syrian population.

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Christianity in Tanzania

Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Tanzania, but in the island of Zanzibar most of the population is Muslim.

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Christianity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Christianity is the majority religion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is professed by a majority of the population.

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Christianity in Zambia

Christianity has been very much at the heart of religion in Zambia since the European colonial explorations into the interior of Africa in the mid 19th century.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Congregationalism

Congregationalism (also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestant Christianity in which churches practice congregational government.

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Continental Reformed Protestantism

Continental Reformed Protestantism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that traces its origin in the continental Europe.

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Crypto-Islam

Crypto-Islam is the secret adherence to Islam while publicly professing to be of another faith; people who practice crypto-Islam are referred to as "crypto-Muslims." The word has mainly been used in reference to Spanish Muslims and Sicilian Muslims during the Inquisition (i.e., the Moriscos and Saraceni and their usage of Aljamiado).

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Crypto-Protestantism

Crypto-Protestantism is a historical phenomenon that first arose on the territory of the Habsburg Empire but also elsewhere in Europe and Latin America, at a time when Catholic rulers tried, after the Protestant Reformation, to reestablish Catholicism in parts of the Empire that had become Protestant after the Reformation.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Decolonisation of Africa

The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War.

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East Africa

East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.

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East Asia

East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Eastern Orthodoxy by country

Based on the numbers of adherents, the Eastern Orthodox Church (also known as Eastern Orthodoxy) is the second largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church, with the most common estimates of baptised members being approximately 220 million.

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Edict of Fontainebleau

The Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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Edict of Nantes

The Edict of Nantes was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Eurobarometer

Eurobarometer is a series of public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission and other EU institutions since 1973.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Evacuation of Finnish Karelia

As a result of the 1940 Moscow Peace Treaty that concluded the Winter War, Finland ceded a portion of Finnish Karelia along with other territories to the Soviet Union.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)

During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg (Neumark) and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Free Evangelical Churches

Free Evangelical Churches (Κοινωνία Ελεύθερων Ευαγγελικών Εκκλησιών Ελλάδας) is a communion of over 60 regional Evangelical free churches in Greece.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Harriet Zuckerman

Harriet Anne Zuckerman (born July 19, 1937) is an American sociologist and professor emerita of Columbia University.

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Hinduism by country

Hinduism has approximately 1.2 billion adherents worldwide (15% of the world's population).

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Holiness movement

The Holiness movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakerism, Anabaptism, and Restorationism.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Hussites

Catholic crusaders in the 15th century The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began in Prague and quickly spread south and then through the rest of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Eventually, it expanded into the remaining domains of the Bohemian Crown as well. The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl.

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Hutterites

Hutterites (Hutterer), also called Hutterian Brethren (German), are a communal ethnoreligious branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the early 16th century and have formed intentional communities.

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International Business Times

The International Business Times is an American online newspaper that publishes five national editions in four languages.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islam by country

Adherents of Islam constitute the world's second largest religious group.

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Jewish population by country

the world's core Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 15.7 million, which is approximately 0.2% of the 8 billion worldwide population.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lebanese Protestant Christians

Lebanese Protestant Christians (بروتستانت لبنان) refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of Protestantism in Lebanon.

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Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and south.

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List of Christian denominations by number of members

This is a list of Christian denominations by number of members.

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List of religious populations

The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world.

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List of the largest Protestant denominations

This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Mainline Protestant

The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history and practice with the largely theologically conservative Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic, Confessional, Confessing Movement, historically Black church, and Global South Protestant denominations and congregations.

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Mark Juergensmeyer

Mark Juergensmeyer (born 1940 in Carlinville, Illinois) is an American sociologist and scholar specialized in global studies and religious studies, and a writer best known for his studies on comparative religion, religious violence, and global religion.

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Mennonites

Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation.

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Methodism

Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Jednota bratrská) founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation.

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Neo-charismatic movement

The Neo-charismatic (also third-wave charismatic or hypercharismatic) movement is a movement within evangelical Protestant Christianity that is composed of a diverse range of independent churches and organizations that emphasize the current availability of gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and faith healing.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.

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Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.

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Nondenominational Christianity

Nondenominational Christianity (or non-denominational Christianity) consists of churches, and individual Christians, which typically distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities by not formally aligning with a specific Christian denomination.

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Nordic countries

The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Northern Europe

The northern region of Europe has several definitions.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Oriental Orthodoxy by country

Oriental Orthodox Churches are the churches descended from those that rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

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P'ent'ay

P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians.

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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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Pew Research Center

The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.

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Plymouth Brethren

The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where it originated from Anglicanism.

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Popery

The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English language for Roman Catholicism, once frequently used by Protestants and Eastern Orthodox Christians to label their Roman Catholic opponents, who differed from them in accepting the authority of the Pope over the Christian Church.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Protestantism in Albania

Evangelical Protestantism is one of five officially recognized faiths in Albania.

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Protestantism in Algeria

Protestants are a religious minority in Algeria.

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Protestantism in Angola

The population of Angola is more than 92% Christian as of 2023.

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Protestantism in Bolivia

Bolivia has an active Protestant minority of various groups, especially Evangelical Methodists.

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Protestantism in Brazil

Protestantism in Brazil began in the 19th century and grew in the 20th century.

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Protestantism in Bulgaria

Protestantism is the third largest religious grouping in Bulgaria after Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam.

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Protestantism in Canada

Protestantism in Canada has existed as a major faith in Canada ever since parts of northern Canada were colonized by the English.

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Protestantism in Chile

Research in 2018 suggested that Protestants represent 11-13% of the population of Chile.

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Protestantism in China

Protestant Christianity (l, in comparison to earlier Roman Catholicism) entered China in the early 19th century, taking root in a significant way during the Qing dynasty.

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Protestantism in Colombia

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) does not collect religious statistics, and accurate reports are difficult to obtain.

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Protestantism in Costa Rica

A study made by the University of Costa Rica in 2021 showed that 19% of the population were Evangelical Christians and 1% were Traditional Protestants.

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Protestantism in Cuba

While Protestants arrived in the island of Cuba early in its colonial days, most of their churches did not flourish until the 20th century with the assistance of American missionaries.

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Protestantism in Eritrea

The World Religion Database noted that in 2020, 47% of the population of Eritrea were Christian; almost 4% are Protestant (mainly P'ent'ay Evangelicalists).

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Protestantism in France

Protestantism in France has existed in its various forms, starting with Calvinism and Lutheranism since the Protestant Reformation.

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Protestantism in Germany

The religion of Protestantism (Protestantismus), a form of Christianity, was founded within Germany in the 16th-century Reformation.

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Protestantism in Greece

Protestants in Greece, including the Greek Evangelical Church and Free Evangelical Churches, stand at about 30,000.

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Protestantism in Haiti

Protestants in Haiti are a significant minority of the population.

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Protestantism in Honduras

According to the Latinobarómetro Corporation in The Religions in the Times of the Pope Francisco, 41% of the population in Honduras is Evangelical while 47% is Catholic.

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Protestantism in India

Protestants in India are a minority and a sub-section of Christians in India and also to a certain extent the Christians in Pakistan before the Partition of India, that adhere to some or all of the doctrines of Protestantism.

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Protestantism in Indonesia

Protestantism (Protestanisme) is one of the six approved religions in Indonesia, the others being Islam, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

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Protestantism in Ireland

Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland.

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Protestantism in Italy

Protestantism in Italy comprises a minority of the country's religious population.

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Protestantism in Jamaica

Protestantism is the dominant religion in Jamaica.

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Protestantism in Japan

Protestants in Japan constitute a religious minority of about 0.45% of total population or 600,000 people in 2020 (see Protestantism by country).

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Protestantism in Laos

Protestantism in Laos make up about 80% of the Christian population of the country in 2020.

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Protestantism in Libya

Protestants make up less than 1% of the population of Libya.

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Protestantism in Luxembourg

The practice of Protestantism in Luxembourg is divided across several different churches and denominations.

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Protestantism in Mexico

Protestantism (which includes both non-evangelical and evangelical denominations) is the largest religious minority in Mexico.

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Protestantism in Mongolia

Protestant Christian churches in Mongolia are Lutheran, Presbyterians, Seventh-day Adventists and various evangelical Protestant groups.

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Protestantism in Morocco

Christians in Morocco constitute less than 1% of the country's population of 33,600,000.

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Protestantism in Mozambique

Christianity is the largest religion in Mozambique, with 62% of the population in 2023.

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Protestantism in Myanmar

Protestants in Myanmar make up 5% of that nation's population in 2023.

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Protestantism in Nigeria

Protestant Christians in Nigeria constitute about 75% of the Christian population, or about 60 million people.

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Protestantism in North Macedonia

It is estimated that Protestantism is practised by 61,358 or roughly 3% of the total population in 2016.

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Protestantism in Pakistan

Protestants are in a minority of less than 1.5% of the population of Pakistan.

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Protestantism in Poland

Protestantism in Poland is the third largest faith in Poland, after the Roman Catholic Church (32,440,722) and the Polish Orthodox Church (503,996).

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Protestantism in Portugal

Protestantism in Portugal has long been a minority religion.

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Protestantism in Puerto Rico

Protestantism in Puerto Rico officially was introduced in 1872 when the first Protestant church in the Anglican tradition was established on the island.

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Protestantism in Qatar

Qatar has a population of approximately 3 million people.

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Protestantism in Russia

Protestants in Russia constitute 1–2% (i.e. 1.5 million – 3 million adherents) of the overall population of the country.

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Protestantism in Saudi Arabia

Protestantism is a minority faith but the more fervent with front in overwhelmingly Muslim Saudi Arabia.

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Protestantism in Serbia

Protestants are the 4th largest religious group in Serbia, after Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics and Muslims.

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Protestantism in South Africa

Protestantism in South Africa accounted for 73.2% of the population in 2010.

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Protestantism in Spain

Protestantism has had a small impact on Spanish life.

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Protestantism in Sri Lanka

According to the 2012 census, 6% of the population of Sri Lanka was Christian; of these, one in ten was Protestant, showing that there were approximately six Protestants for every 1,000 Sri Lankans.

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Protestantism in Sudan

Protestants are about 2,009,374 in Sudan (5% of the population).

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Protestantism in Switzerland

The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel (Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gallen,(Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France.

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Protestantism in Taiwan

Protestants in Taiwan constitute a religious minority.

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Protestantism in Tajikistan

Protestants composed less than 1% of the population of Tajikistan in 2020.

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Protestantism in Thailand

Protestants in Thailand constitute about 0.77% of the population of Thailand.

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Protestantism in the Dominican Republic

Protestants in the Dominican Republic represent a sizeable minority of the population.

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Protestantism in the Philippines

Protestant denominations arrived in the Philippines in 1898, after the United States took control of the Philippines from Spain, first with United States Army chaplains and then within months civilian missionaries.

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Protestantism in the United Arab Emirates

Protestantism is a minority religion in the United Arab Emirates.

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Protestantism in the United Kingdom

Protestantism (part of Christianity) is the largest religious demographic in the United Kingdom.

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Protestantism in the United States

Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019.

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Protestantism in Turkey

Protestants are a very small religious minority in Turkey, comprising less than one tenth of one percent of the population.

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Protestantism in Turkmenistan

According to 2020 estimates, Protestants make up 0.04% of the population of Turkmenistan, or about 3% of the Christian community of the country.

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Protestantism in Tuvalu

Protestants in Tuvalu- Tuvalu is one of the most heavily Protestant nations in the world.

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Protestantism in Ukraine

Protestants in Ukraine number about 600,000 to 700,000 (2007), about 2% of the total population.

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Protestantism in Uzbekistan

Protestants made up about 0.15% of the population of Uzbekistan in 2020.

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Protestantism in Vietnam

Protestants in Vietnam (đạo Tin Lành) are a religious minority, constituting 1% of the population in 2022.

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Protestantism in Yemen

Protestants make up 0.05% of the population of Yemen in 2023, while Christians as a group make up 0.08% of the country's population.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Reformed Christianity

Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.

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Region

In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

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Religion in Armenia

As of 2011, most Armenians in Armenia are Christians (97%) and are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which is one of the oldest Christian churches.

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Religion in Austria

Religion in Austria is predominantly Christianity, adhered to by 68.2% of the country's population according to the 2021 national survey conducted by Statistics Austria.

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Religion in Barbados

Religion in Barbados is predominantly Christian.

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Religion in Belarus

Christianity is the main religion in Belarus, with Eastern Orthodoxy being the largest denomination.

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Religion in Belgium

Christianity is the largest religion in Belgium, with the Catholic Church representing the largest community, though it has experienced a significant decline since the 1950s (when it was the nominal religion of over 80% of the population).

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Religion in Belize

Christianity is the dominant religion in Belize.

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Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The most widely professed religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina is Islam and the second biggest religion is Christianity.

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Religion in Cape Verde

Christianity is the largest religion in Cape Verde, with Roman Catholics having the most adherents.

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Religion in Croatia

Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Croatia, representing 87.4% of the total population.

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Religion in Ecuador

When it comes to religion, the Ecuadorian society is relatively homogeneous, with Christianity being the primary religion.

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Religion in El Salvador

Christianity is the predominant religion in El Salvador, with Catholicism and Protestantism being its main denominations.

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Religion in Estonia

Estonia, historically a Lutheran Christian nation, is today one of the least religious countries in the world in terms of declared attitudes, with only 14 percent of the population declaring religion to be an important part of their daily life.

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Religion in Finland

Finland is a predominantly Christian nation where 65.2% of the Finnish population of 5.6 million are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Protestant), 32.0% are unaffiliated, 1.1% are Orthodox Christians, 0.9% are other Christians and 0.8% follow other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, folk religion etc.

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Religion in Guatemala

Christianity has dominated Guatemalan society since its Spanish colonial rule, but the nature of Christian practice in the country has changed in recent decades.

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Religion in Hungary

Christianity is the largest religion in Hungary, with Catholicism and Calvinism being its main denominations.

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Religion in Iceland

Religion in Iceland has been predominantly Christianity since its adoption as the state religion by the Althing under the influence of Olaf Tryggvason, the king of Norway, in 999/1000 CE.

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Religion in Kiribati

Christianity is the predominant religion in Kiribati, with Catholicism being its largest denomination.

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Religion in Latvia

The main religion traditionally practiced in Latvia is Christianity.

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Religion in Lithuania

According to the Lithuanian census of 2021, the predominant religion in Lithuania is Christianity, with the largest confession being that of the Catholic Church (about 74% of the population).

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Religion in Moldova

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.

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Religion in Norway

Religion in Norway is dominated by Lutheran Christianity, with 63.7% of the population belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway in 2022.

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Religion in Romania

Christianity is the main religion in Romania, with Romanian Orthodoxy being its largest denomination.

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Religion in Slovakia

Religion in Slovakia is predominantly Christianity, adhered to by about 68.8% of the population in 2021.

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Religion in Slovenia

The dominant religion in Slovenia is Christianity, primarily the Catholic Church, which is the largest Christian denomination in the country.

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Religion in Sweden

Religion in Sweden has, over the years, become increasingly diverse.

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Religion in the Bahamas

Religion in the Bahamas is dominated by various Christian denominations and reflects the country's diversity.

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Religion in the Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, 47.8% of population is irreligious (atheist, agnostic or other irreligious life stances), while 21.3% of the population are believers.

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Religion in the Netherlands

Religion in the Netherlands was dominated by Christianity between the 10th and 20th centuries.

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Religion in Tunisia

Of the religions in Tunisia, Islam is the most prevalent.

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Religion in Uganda

Christianity is the predominant religion in Uganda.

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Religion in Vanuatu

Christianity is the largest religion in Vanuatu.

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Religion in Venezuela

Christianity is the largest religion in Venezuela, with Catholicism having the most adherents.

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Religion in Zimbabwe

Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Zimbabwe, with Protestantism being its largest denomination.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Secularization

In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.

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Southern Europe

Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe.

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Statistics Iceland

Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) is the main official institute providing statistics on the nation of Iceland.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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United and uniting churches

A united church, also called a uniting church, is a denomination formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations, a number of which come from separate and distinct denominational orientations or traditions.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Waldensians

The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses, Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism_by_country

Also known as Protestants by country.

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