|
| |
Ninety Three Percent of North
Americans Are Christians
 | Of 284 million Americans:
 | Ninety three percent or 264 million
of them are Christians.
 | 249 million Christians belong to an organized church.
|
| 15 million are Christians who are not
members of an organized church.
|
|
| 7% or 20 million are non-Christians
| 1.9% or 5.4 million are Muslims.
|
| 1.9% or 5.4 million are Jews.
|
| 0.6% or 1.7 million are atheists.
|
| 0.3% or 0.9 million are Buddhists.
|
| 0.3% or 0.9 million are other
religionists.
|
| 2% or 5.7 million are of other
religions or are non-religious.
|
|
|
| 70% or 199 million want SPOKEN
prayers in public schools.
|
| 28% or 79.5 million are opposed to
spoken prayers in public schools.
|
| 2% or 5.7 million have no opinion
about it.
|
Who in the U.S. are NOT Christians
As of today, June 29, 2008, the population of the
US is 304,468,991 of which 7% or 21,312,000 claim NOT to be Christians:
-
5,120,000 = jew
-
2,695,000 = black Muslim
-
7,300,000 = Arab, Iranian
-
3,045,000 = atheist, agnostic
-
3,152,000 = Indian
The LAW for the 283,156,991 of us who DO claim to
be "Christians" CANNOT ever change, and it is the following:
But them that are without God
judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person,
1 Corinthians 5:13
"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not
respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in
righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor", Leviticus 19:15
"Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear
the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for
the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me,
and I will hear it", Deuteronomy 1:17
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?" 2 Corinthians 6:14
"Now we command you, brethren, on the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly,
and not after the tradition which he received of us", 2 Thessalonians 3:6
How are we to "withdraw [our]selves"? How
do we "put away" the wicked and the non-believer? How do we remove those
we are "unequally yoked together" with? WHO will do this? Certainly
not the 5 million jews, 2 1/2 million black Muslims, 7 million Arabs or
Iranians, 3 million atheists, nor 3 million Indians, because it is THEY who must
be removed. Certainly not most of the 54 million Catholics, because they
are Hispanics who also must be removed:
|
NON-Christians |
21,312,000 |
| jew |
5,120,000 |
| black Muslim |
2,695,000 |
| Arab, Iranian |
7,300,000 |
| Atheist, agnostic |
3,045,000 |
| Indian |
3,152,000 |
| Catholic |
54,804,418 |
| Protestant |
228,352,573 |
Sodomy & women "preachers"
Because so many Protestant denominations have
ordained women and homosexuals as "priests", "pastors", and other leaders in the
church, the only Godly thing for a Protestant to do today is to avoid with all
their heart and condemn with all their might these anti-Christ "churches".
The result is that MOST Protestants no longer belong to or support an organized
"church" and thus are no longer counted as members. But that doesn't mean
they're not still Protestants, because if that were the standard, then almost
all of our PROTESTANT Founding Fathers, who were 99% of our Founders, could not
be counted as Protestants, or even Christians.
jew Weiss IMPOSES judaism on our children
If all non-Christians want spoken
prayers in public schools, then of the 199 million, 20 million want non-Christian prayers
and 179 million want Christian prayers. Most jews seem to have the opinion of Dr.
Richard Weiss:
But, if you try to IMPOSE your will and religious idealogies
on my children, who are going to public school to receive a secular reducation (I
responsibly take care of their religios upbringing personally, according to my own
beliefs), I will FIGHT you and your cronies with every fiber of my body. R. Weiss
Richard C. Weiss <weissrl@vetmed.auburn.edu>,
Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:23 AM
Atheists and agnostics don't want
spoken prayers, so if it's assumed that Muslims want Mulsim prayer, Buddhists want
Buddhist prayer, other religionists want their kind of prayer, and that all Christians
want a Christian prayer, then a maximum of 6.6 million of the 199 million who want spoken
prayers want a prayer other than a Christian prayer, and 192.4 million want Christian
prayers. This is 72.9% of all Christians and 67.7% of all Americans, enough public
support for a Constitutional amendment to exile jews like Weiss.
This is from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001484.html
Religious Population of the World, 1996
(in thousands)
Statistics of the world's religions are only very
rough approximations. Aside from Christianity, few religions, if any, attempt to keep
statistical records; and even Protestants and Catholics employ different methods of
counting members. All persons of whatever age who have received baptism in the Catholic
Church are counted as members, while in most Protestant Churches only those who
“join” the church are numbered. The compiling of statistics is further
complicated by the fact that in China one may be at the same time a Confucian, a Taoist,
and a Buddhist. In Japan, one may be both a Buddhist and a Shintoist.
| Religion |
Total |
Percent
distri-
bution |
Africa |
Asia1
|
Latin
America |
North
America |
Europe2 |
Oceania |
|
Total Religious
Population3 |
5,804,120 |
100.0% |
748,130 |
3,513,218 |
490,444 |
295,677 |
727,678 |
28,973 |
| Christians (total) |
1,955,229 |
33.7% |
360,874 |
303,127 |
455,819 |
255,542 |
555,614 |
24,253 |
| Roman Catholics |
981,465 |
16.9% |
125,376 |
94,250 |
408,968 |
75,398 |
269,021 |
8,452 |
| Protestants |
404,020 |
7.0% |
114,726 |
45,326 |
34,816 |
121,361 |
79,534 |
8,257 |
| Orthodox |
218,350 |
3.8% |
25,215 |
13,970 |
460 |
6,390 |
171,665 |
650 |
| Anglicans |
69,136 |
1.2% |
27,200 |
650 |
1,089 |
6,300 |
28,357 |
5,540 |
| Other Christians |
282,258 |
4.9% |
68,357 |
148,931 |
10,486 |
46,093 |
7,037 |
1,354 |
|
Muslims4
|
1,126,325 |
19.4% |
308,660 |
778,362 |
1,356 |
5,530 |
32,032 |
385 |
|
Nonreligious5 |
886,929 |
15.3% |
3,567 |
752,759 |
16,053 |
21,315 |
90,390 |
2,845 |
|
Hindus6
|
793,076 |
13.7% |
1,986 |
786,991 |
760 |
1,365 |
1,650 |
323 |
|
Buddhists7 |
325,275 |
5.6% |
38 |
321,985 |
569 |
920 |
1,563 |
200 |
|
Atheists8 |
222,195 |
3.8% |
440 |
175,450 |
3,010 |
1,850 |
40,845 |
600 |
|
Chinese folk religionists9 |
220,971 |
3.8% |
13 |
220,653 |
68 |
100 |
120 |
17 |
|
New Religionists10 |
106,016 |
1.8% |
21 |
103,361 |
919 |
900 |
803 |
11 |
| Ethnic Religionists |
102,945 |
1.8% |
70,250 |
30,350 |
1,042 |
45 |
1,150 |
108 |
| Sikhs |
19,508 |
0.3% |
37 |
18,465 |
9 |
496 |
494 |
7 |
| Jews |
13,866 |
0.2% |
165 |
4,257 |
1,084 |
5,836 |
2,432 |
92 |
| Spiritists |
10,293 |
0.2% |
5 |
1,120 |
8,834 |
315 |
18 |
1 |
| Baha'is |
6,404 |
0.1% |
1,923 |
3,230 |
722 |
357 |
95 |
77 |
| Confucians |
5,086 |
0.1% |
1 |
5,050 |
3 |
27 |
5 |
1 |
| Jains |
4,920 |
0.1% |
59 |
4,835 |
5 |
5 |
16 |
1 |
| Shintoists |
2,898 |
— |
— |
2,893 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
Other Religionists11 |
1,952 |
— |
90 |
100 |
190 |
1,072 |
450 |
50 |
| Parsees |
191 |
— |
2 |
185 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Mandeans |
45 |
— |
— |
45 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
Reprinted with permission from 1997 Britannica
Book of the Year. � 1997 Encyclop�dia Britannica, Inc.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr990709.asp
[Do you favor] "Allowing daily prayer to be
spoken in the classroom":
| Favor |
70% |
| Oppose |
28% |
| No opinion |
2% |
Note that even this poll from the
leftist Gallup Organization shows that 70% of the American population favors spoken daily
prayers in the classroom, which is now 198.8 million people who DO want school prayer,
versus 79.5 million who reportedly don't. This leftist poll even shows that 85% of
Americans, or 241 million of them, are Christians. But when all of the members of
Christian churches, and other Christians who aren't members of organized churches, are
added up, the figure is 93%, or 264 million. In other words, more than a quarter of
a billion Americans are Christians.
This leaves us with the following possible
combinations. At one extreme, if all of those who want school prayer are Christians,
then the figures are:
| US Population = 284 million
|
| Total Christians = 264 million
|
| Christians who want school prayer = 198.8
million
|
| Christians who opppose school prayer = 65.2
million
|
| Others who oppose school prayer = 14.3
million
|
At the other extreme, if all of those who want
school prayer are the non-Christians, then the figures are:
| US Population = 284 million
|
| Total Christians = 264 million
|
| Christians who want school prayer = 178.8
million
|
| Christians who oppose school prayer = 85.2
million
|
| Others who want school prayer = 20 million
|
| Others who oppose school prayer = 0
|
Either way this is evaluated, those who oppose
school prayer are a small MINORITY. Do you really, really believe, deep down in
your heart, that a MINORITY group of pagans and other non-Christians and
pseudo-Christians should be permitted to control what the MAJORITY group of
Christians want?
Those who *do* believe that ought to be
just packed up and shipped out. If you want to get an idea of what this country will
look like in 20 years if we don't do just that, take a trip to Russia, where former
Christians are still wandering around wondering what happened to their own culture.
US population clock http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
A competing view of of the Christian population in
the US is from Mapquest which reports that only 84% or 244 million of Americans are
Catholics or Protestants http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_htm/usa.htm
| Percentage of Population Who
Are Christians |
Catholic or Orthodox |
Protestant or other Christian |
Total |
| US |
28 |
56 |
84 |
| Israel |
|
|
2 |
| Ethiopia |
|
|
40 |
| Lebanon |
|
|
30 |
| Syria |
|
10 |
10 |
| Turkmenistan |
9 |
|
9 |
| Uzbekistan |
9 |
|
9 |
| Jordan |
|
|
6 |
| Egypt |
|
|
6 |
| Sudan |
|
|
5 |
| Iraq |
|
|
3 |
| India |
|
|
2.3% 240 m Christians |
| China |
|
|
1% 125 m Christians |
| Belgium |
75 |
25 |
100 |
| Ireland |
92 |
8 |
100 |
| Italy |
99 |
|
99 |
| Portugal |
94 |
5 |
99 |
| Spain |
99 |
|
99 |
| Monaco |
90 |
9 |
99 |
| Germany |
38 |
60 |
98 |
| Denmark |
2 |
95 |
98 |
| France |
90 |
2 |
92 |
| Netherlands |
31 |
21 plus 40 unaffiliated |
92 |
| Iceland |
|
91 |
91 |
| Finland |
1 |
89 |
90 |
| Sweden |
3 |
86 |
89 |
| Norway |
3 |
86 |
89 |
***As a percentage*** there are fewer Christians in
the US than there are in most Christian nations, AND as an absolute number, there are more
Christians in India and China than there are in the US.
Only 84% of Americans are Catholics or Protestants,
compared to 100% in Belgium and Ireland, 99% in Italy, Portugal, Monaco, and Spain, 98% in
Germany and Denmark, 92% in France and Netherlands, 91% in Iceland, 90% in Finland, and
89% in Sweden and Norway.
Another interesting point about our "ally"
in "Israel"--only 2% of its population is now
Christians, down from 42% in 1923, which means there are 2,000 times as many Christians in
China and 1,040 times as many in India!!!
***As a percentage*** of the population, compared to
Israel, there are 20 times as many Christians in Ethiopia, 15 times as many in Lebanon, 5
times as many in Syria, 4 times as many in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, 3 times as many in
Sudan, Jordan, and Egypt--AND FIFTY PERCENT MORE IN IRAQ!!!
A very small percentage of jews can pervert an
entire once-powerful Christian nation.
Protestants soon to be minority in U.S., study finds
July 21, 2004
BY CATHLEEN FALSANI Religion Reporter
America's Protestant
majority is about to disappear, according to a new study by researchers at the University
of Chicago. Since the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock nearly
400 years ago, America has been a largely Protestant nation.
But as early as the end of this year, Protestants likely will make
up less than 51 percent of the population for the first time in history, sociologists at
the university's National Opinion Research Center surmise in a new report released
Tuesday.
According to survey results from more than 43,000 Americans gathered
over the last 30 years, the percentage of Protestants in the national population has
shrunk from 63 percent in 1993 to 52 percent in 2002.
Surveys defined Protestant as any Christian denomination that was
formed at the time of the Reformation or thereafter, including groups such as the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Tom Smith, director of the NORC's General
Social Survey, where most of the data was collected.
"Our projection is that the Protestant percentage in the 2004
survey will probably be somewhere between 50 and 51 percent," Smith said. "It's
particularly striking because for 30 years, it was absolutely stable.''
Smith said media have covered "the rise of nontraditional
American religions ... and the rise of people without any faith, but what was missing from
that story was, OK, the number of people with no faith was rising but nobody was paying
attention to where they were coming from."
In the last 30 years, the number of people who say they were brought
up with no religion at all has risen from 2 percent to 7 percent, according to the NORC
report.
From 1993 to 2002, the number of people who said they had no
religion rose from 9 percent to nearly 14 percent, and in that same time period the number
of people who said they were raised Protestant fell from 64 percent to about 56 percent.
"There is some evidence that a large portion of this problem is
that a fair number of marginal Protestants are not really engaged in their faith and
therefore didn't pass it on to their kids," Smith said. "The mom and dad would
say, for example, 'Yeah, we're Methodists,' but they never went to church. They'd baptize
their kids and that's about it."
If the Protestant majority does indeed disappear, the United States
will be a nation of religious minorities. The next largest religious group after
Protestant is Roman Catholic, at about 25 percent. The Catholic population has remained
stable over the last decade, according to the NORC study.
"The Catholic defection is [also] pretty large, but they are
being replaced by immigrants," said R. Stephen Warner, a professor of sociology at
the University of Illinois at Chicago, after reviewing the NORC report. "Christianity
is becoming a religion of people of color. Part of this is the decline of the WASP."
The Rev. John Buchanan, pastor of Chicago's 5,200-member Fourth
Presbyterian Church, said he welcomes the demise of the Protestant majority.
"I'm not applauding the Protestant decline . . . what I'm
applauding is the viability of a truly diverse nation, a nation that opens its arms and
heart to different races, different religions," said Buchanan, whose own congregation
is bucking trends by doubling its attendance in the last decade.
"I think that's a better place to be than a nation that's
dominated by one religion -- whatever it is."
RELIGIOUS TRENDS
PERCENTAGE OF THE U.S. POPULATION
|
| Year |
Protestant |
Catholic |
Jewish |
None |
Other |
|
| 1972 |
62.5 |
27.4 |
3.0 |
5.1 |
1.9 |
|
| 1982 |
63.9 |
25.7 |
2.1 |
7.1 |
1.2 |
|
| 1993 |
63.1 |
23.0 |
2.1 |
9.0 |
2.8 |
|
| 2002 |
52.4 |
25.5 |
1.5 |
13.8 |
6.9 |
|
RELIGION RAISED IN
|
| Year |
Protestant |
Catholic |
Jewish |
None |
Other |
|
| 1973 |
64.3 |
29.0 |
2.8 |
2.3 |
1.6 |
|
| 1983 |
62.4 |
30.8 |
2.9 |
3.1 |
0.7 |
|
| 1993 |
64.0 |
27.4 |
2.2 |
4.4 |
2.1 |
|
| 2002 |
55.7 |
30.7 |
1.9 |
7.2 |
4.5 |
|
Source: National Opinion Research Center/University of Chicago
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http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#gallup
| Religious Preference |
% June 1996 |
% March 2001 |
March 2002 |
| Christian |
84 |
82 |
82 |
| Jewish |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Muslim |
* |
1 |
* |
| Other non-Christian |
3 |
2 |
1 |
| Atheist |
* |
1 |
1 |
| Agnostic |
* |
2 |
2 |
| Something else (SPECIFY) |
* |
1 |
2 |
| No preference |
11 |
8 |
10 |
| Don't know/Refused |
1 |
2 |
1 |
| TOTAL |
100 |
100 |
100 |
In the above Gallup Poll, had Founding
Fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, as well as many of our nation's
leaders and politicians today, been asked which church they're affiliated with, they would
have been listed in the "no preference" category, indicating that a large
percentage if not all in that catetory are Christians who are not members of organized
churches. Conversely, jews and Muslims are identified by the fact that they ARE
affiliated with with established organizations. The fact that Muslims in 1996 and
2002, and agnostics and atheists in 1996 were too few in number to be rounded off to one
percent, suggests that their appearance in other years may be due to the extremely small
sample size of most Gallup polls, whose margin of error is larger than these figures.
This would mean that as many as 95% of Americans in 1996, 93% in 2001, and 94% in
2002, identified themselves as Christians.
|
Afghanistan
|
Islam (Sunni 80%, Shiite 19%), other 1%
|
|
Albania
|
Islam 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10% (est.)
|
|
Algeria
|
Islam (Sunni) 99% (state religion), Christian and Jewish 1%
|
|
Andorra
|
Roman Catholic (predominant)
|
|
Angola
|
Indigenous 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% (1998 est.)
|
|
Antigua and Barbuda
|
Christian (predominantly Anglican and other Protestant; some Roman
Catholic)
|
|
Argentina
|
Roman Catholic 92%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%
|
|
Armenia
|
Armenian Apostolic 95%, other Christian 4%, Yezidi 1%
|
|
Australia
|
Roman Catholic 26%, Anglican 21%, other Christian 21%, Buddhist 2%,
Islam 2%, other 1%, none 15% (2001)
|
|
Austria
|
Roman Catholic 74%, Protestant 5%, Islam 4%, none 12% (2001)
|
|
Azerbaijan
|
Islam 93%, Russian Orthodox 3%, Armenian Orthodox 2%, other 2% (1995
est.)
|
|
Bahamas
|
Baptist 35%, Anglican 15%, Roman Catholic 14%, Pentecostal 8%, Church of
God 5%, Methodist 4%, other Christian 15% (2000)
|
|
Bahrain
|
Islam (Shiite and Sunni) 81%, Christian 9%
|
|
Bangladesh
|
Islam 83%, Hindu 16%, other 1% (1998)
|
|
Barbados
|
Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%),
Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, other 12%
|
|
Belarus
|
Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant,
Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
|
|
Belgium
|
Roman Catholic 75%, Protestant or other 25%
|
|
Belize
|
Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 27% (Pentecostal 7%, Anglican 5%,
Seventh-Day Adventist 5%, Mennonite 4%, Methodist 4%, Jehovah's
Witnesses 2%), none 9%, other 14% (2000)
|
|
Benin
|
indigenous 50%, Christian 30%, Islam 20%
|
|
Bhutan
|
Lamaistic Buddhist 75%, Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism 25%
|
|
Bolivia
|
Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%
|
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
Islam 40%, Orthodox 31%, Roman Catholic 15%, other 14%
|
|
Botswana
|
Christian 72%, Badimo 6%, none 21% (2001)
|
|
Brazil
|
Roman Catholic 74%, Protestant 15%, Spiritualist 1%, none 7% (2000)
|
|
Brunei
|
Islam (official religion) 67%, Buddhist 13%, Christian 10%, indigenous
beliefs and other 10%
|
|
Bulgaria
|
Bulgarian Orthodox 83%, Islam 12%, other Christian 1% (2001)
|
|
Burkina Faso
|
Islam 50%, indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) 10%
|
|
Burundi
|
Roman Catholic 62%, indigenous 23%, Islam 10%, Protestant 5%
|
|
Cambodia
|
Theravada Buddhist 95%, others 5%
|
|
Cameroon
|
indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 40%, Islam 20%
|
|
Canada
|
Roman Catholic 43%, Protestant 23% (including United Church 10%,
Anglican 7%, Baptist 2%, Lutheran 2%), other Christian 4%, Muslim 2%,
none 16% (2001)
|
|
Cape Verde
|
Roman Catholic (infused with indigenous beliefs), Protestant (mostly
Church of the Nazarene)
|
|
Central African Republic
|
indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant and Roman Catholic (both with animist
influence) 25% each, Islam 15%
|
|
Chad
|
Islam 51%, Christian 35%, animist 7%, other 7%
|
|
Chile
|
Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 11%, small Jewish population
|
|
China
|
Officially atheist; Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%–4%, Muslim
1%–2% (2002 est.)
|
|
Colombia
|
Roman Catholic 90%
|
|
Comoros
|
Sunni Muslim 98%, Roman Catholic 2%
|
|
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
|
Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Islam 10%; other
syncretic and indigenous 10%
|
|
Congo, Republic of
|
Christian 50%, animist 48%, Islam 2%
|
|
Costa Rica
|
Roman Catholic 76%, Evangelical 14%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1%, other
Protestant 1%, other 5%, none 3%
|
|
Côte d'Ivoire
|
indigenous 25%–40%, Islam 35%–40%, Christian 20%–30% (2001)
|
|
Croatia
|
Roman Catholic 88%, Orthodox 4%, Muslim 1%, other Christian less than
1%, none 5% (2001)
|
|
Cuba
|
predominantly Roman Catholic and Santería (Afro-Cuban syncretic
religion)
|
|
Cyprus
|
Greek Orthodox 78%, Islam 18%, Maronite, Armenian Apostolic, and other
4%
|
|
Czech Republic
|
Roman Catholic 27%, Protestant 2%, unaffiliated 59% (2001)
|
|
Denmark
|
Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim
2%
|
|
Djibouti
|
Islam 94%, Christian 6%
|
|
Dominica
|
Roman Catholic 77%, Protestant 15% (Methodist 5%, Pentecostal 3%,
Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Baptist 2%, other 2%), none 2%
|
|
Dominican Republic
|
Roman Catholic 95%
|
|
East Timor
|
Roman Catholic 90%, Islam 4%, Protestant 3%, Hindu 0.5%, Buddhist,
animist (1992 est.)
|
|
Ecuador
|
Roman Catholic 95%
|
|
Egypt
|
Islam (mostly Sunni) 90%, Coptic 9%, Christian 1%, other 6%
|
|
El Salvador
|
Catholics 83%; growing population of evangelical Protestants (1992)
|
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
nominally Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic, pagan practices
|
|
Eritrea
|
Islam, Eritrean Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholic, Protestant
|
|
Estonia
|
Evangelical Lutheran 14%, Russian Orthodox 13%, other Christian
(including Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic,
Pentecostal) 1%, unaffiliated 34%, none 6% (2001)
|
|
Ethiopia
|
Islam 45%–50%, Ethiopian Orthodox 35%–40%, animist 12%, other 3%–8%
|
|
Fiji
|
Christian 52% (Methodist 37%, Roman Catholic 9%), Hindu 38%, Islam 8%,
other 2%
|
|
Finland
|
Evangelical Lutheran 84%, Greek Orthodox 1%, other Christian 1%, none
14%
|
|
France
|
Roman Catholic 83%–88%, Protestant 2%, Islam 5%–10%, Jewish 1%,
unaffiliated 4%
|
|
Gabon
|
Christian 55%–75%, animist, Islam less than 1%
|
|
Gambia
|
Islam 90%, Christian 9%, indigenous 1%
|
|
Georgia
|
Orthodox 84%, Islam 10%, Armenian-Gregorian 4%, Catholic 1% (2002)
|
|
Germany
|
Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Islam 4%, Unaffiliated or other 28%
|
|
Ghana
|
Christian 63%, indigenous beliefs 21%, Islam 16%
|
|
Greece
|
Greek Orthodox 98%, Islam 1%, other 1%
|
|
Grenada
|
Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 14%, other Protestant 33%
|
|
Guatemala
|
Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
|
|
Guinea
|
Islam 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous 7%
|
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
indigenous beliefs 50%, Islam 45%, Christian 5%
|
|
Guyana
|
Christian 50%, Hindu 35%, Islam 10%, other 5%
|
|
Haiti
|
Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%,
Adventist 1%, other 1%), other 3%, none 1%. Note: roughly half the
population practices Vaudou
|
|
Honduras
|
Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%
|
|
Hungary
|
Roman Catholic 52%, Calvinist 16%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 3%, other
Christian 1%, unaffiliated 15% (2001)
|
|
Iceland
|
Lutheran Church of Iceland 85.5%, Reykjavik Free Church 2.1%, Roman
Catholic Church 2%, Hafnarfjorour Free Church 1.5%, other Christian
2.7%, other or unspecified 3.8%, unaffiliated 2.4% (2004)
|
|
India
|
Hindu 81%, Islam 13%, Christian 2%, Sikh 2% (2001)
|
|
Indonesia
|
Islam 88%, Protestant 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%
(1998)
|
|
Iran
|
Islam 98% (Shi'a 89%, Sunni 9%); Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and
Baha'i 2%
|
|
Iraq
|
Islam 97% (Shiite 60%–65%, Sunni 32%–37%), Christian or other 3%
|
|
Ireland
|
Roman Catholic 88%, Church of Ireland 3%, other Christian 2%, none 4%
|
|
Israel
|
Judaism 77%, Islam 16%, Christian 2%, Druze 2% (2003)
|
|
Italy
|
Roman Catholic approx. 90%, Protestant, Jewish, Islamic
|
|
Jamaica
|
Protestant 61.3%, (Church of God 21.2%, Baptist 8.8%, Anglican 5.5%,
Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Methodist 2.7%, United
Church 2.7%, Brethren 1.1%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Moravian 1.1%),
Roman Catholic 4%, other including some spiritual cults 34.7%
|
|
Japan
|
Shintoist and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%)
|
|
Jordan
|
Islam (Sunni) 92%, Christian 6% (mostly Greek Orthodox), other 2%
|
|
Kazakhstan
|
Islam 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%
|
|
Kenya
|
Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10%, Islam 10%,
others 2% (note: estimates vary widely)
|
|
Kiribati
|
Roman Catholic 52%, Protestant (Congregational) 40%, some Seventh-Day
Adventist, Muslim, Baha'i, Latter-day Saints, and Church of God (1999)
|
|
Korea, North
|
Buddhism and Confucianism; religious activities almost nonexistent
|
|
Korea, South
|
no affiliation 46%, Christian 26%, Buddhist 26%, Confucianist 1%, other
1%
|
|
Kuwait
|
Islam 85% (Sunni 70%, Shiite 30%); Christian, Hindu, Parsi, and other
15%
|
|
Kyrgyzstan
|
Islam 75%; Russian Orthodox 20%; other 5%
|
|
Laos
|
Buddhist 60%, animist and other 40% (including Christian 2%)
|
|
Latvia
|
Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox
|
|
Lebanon
|
Islam 60% (Shi'a, Sunni, Druze, Isma'ilite, Alawite/Nusayri), Christian
39% (Maronite, Melkite, Syrian, Armenian, and Roman Catholic; Greek,
Armenian, and Syrian Orthodox; Chaldean; Assyrian; Copt; Protestant),
other 1%
|
|
Lesotho
|
Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs 20%
|
|
Liberia
|
traditional 40%, Christian 40%, Islam 20%
|
|
Libya
|
Islam (Sunni) 97%
|
|
Liechtenstein
|
Roman Catholic, 77%, Protestant, 7%; unknown, 11% (2002)
|
|
Lithuania
|
Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4%, Protestant (including Lutheran,
evangelical Christian Baptist) 2%, none 10% (2001)
|
|
Luxembourg
|
Roman Catholic 87%; Protestant, Jewish, Islamic 13% (2000)
|
|
Macedonia
|
Macedonian Orthodox 32%, Islam 17% (2002)
|
|
Madagascar
|
indigenous beliefs 52%, Christian 41%, Islam 7%
|
|
Malawi
|
Christian 80%, Islam 13%, none 4% (1998)
|
|
Malaysia
|
Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Christian, Sikh; Shamanism (East
Malaysia)
|
|
Maldives
|
Islam (Sunni)
|
|
Mali
|
Islam 90%, indigenous beliefs 9%, Christian 1%
|
|
Malta
|
Roman Catholic 98%
|
|
Marshall Islands
|
Protestant 55%, Assembly of God 26%, Roman Catholic 8%, Bukot nan Jesus
3%, Mormon 2%, other Christian 4%, none 2% (1999)
|
|
Mauritania
|
Islam 100%
|
|
Mauritius
|
Hindu 48%, Roman Catholic 24%, other Christian 8%, Islam 17% (2000)
|
|
Mexico
|
nominally Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5%
|
|
Micronesia
|
Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 47%
|
|
Moldova
|
Eastern Orthodox 98%, Jewish 1.5%, Baptist and other 0.5% (2000)
|
|
Monaco
|
Roman Catholic 90%
|
|
Mongolia
|
Buddhist Lamaist 50%, Islam 4%, Shamanism and Christian 4%, none 40%
(2004)
|
|
Montenegro
|
Orthodox, Muslim, Roman Catholic
|
|
Morocco
|
Islam 99%, Christian 1%
|
|
Mozambique
|
Mozambique 24%, Islam 18%, Zionist Christian 18%, none 23% (1997)
|
|
Myanmar
|
Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Islam 4%,
Animist 1%, other 2%
|
|
Namibia
|
Christian 80%–90% (Lutheran at least 50%), indigenous beliefs 10%–20%
|
|
Nauru
|
Christian (two-thirds Protestant, one-third Roman Catholic)
|
|
Nepal
|
Hindu 81%, Buddhist 11%, Islam 4%, Kirant 4% (2001)
|
|
Netherlands
|
Roman Catholic 31%, Dutch Reformed 13%, Calvinist 7%, Islam 6%, none 41%
(2002)
|
|
New Zealand
|
Anglican 15%, Roman Catholic 12%, Presbyterian 11%, Methodist 3%,
Pentecostal 2%, Baptist 1%, other Christian 9%, none 26% (2001)
|
|
Nicaragua
|
Roman Catholic 73%, Evangelical 15%, Moravian 2%, none 9% (1995)
|
|
Niger
|
Islam 80%, indigenous beliefs and Christian 20%
|
|
Nigeria
|
Islam 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%
|
|
Norway
|
Evangelical Lutheran 86% (state church), Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic
1%, other Christian 2% (2004)
|
|
Oman
|
Islam: Ibadhi 75%, Sunni, Shi'a; Hindu
|
|
Pakistan
|
Islam 97% (Sunni 77%, Shiite 20%); Christian, Hindu, and other 3%
|
|
Palau
|
Roman Catholic 42%, Protestant 23%, Modekngei 9% (indigenous),
Seventh-Day Adventist 5%, Jehovah's Witness 1%, Latter-Day Saints 1%,
other religion 3%, unspecified or none 16% (2000)
|
|
Palestinian State (proposed)
|
West Bank: Islam 75% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 17%, Christian and
other 8%; Gaza Strip: Islam 98.7% (predominantly Sunni), Christian 0.7%,
Jewish 0.6%.
|
|
Panama
|
Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 15%
|
|
Papua New Guinea
|
Roman Catholic 22%, Lutheran 16%, Presbyterian/Methodist/London
Missionary Society 8%, Anglican 5%, Evangelical Alliance 4%, Seventh-Day
Adventist 1%, other Protestant 10%, indigenous beliefs 34%
|
|
Paraguay
|
Roman Catholic 90%, Mennonite, other Protestant 10%
|
|
Peru
|
Roman Catholic 81%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other Christian 1%,
unspecified or none 16% (2003 est.)
|
|
Philippines
|
Roman Catholic 81%, Evangelical 3%, Iglesia ni Kristo 2%, Aglipayan 2%,
other Christian 5%, Islam 5% (2000)
|
|
Poland
|
Roman Catholic 90% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox 1%,
Protestant and other (2002)
|
|
Portugal
|
Roman Catholic 94%, Protestant (1995)
|
|
Qatar
|
Islam 95%
|
|
Romania
|
Romanian Orthodox 87%, Protestant 8%, Roman Catholic 5%, Islam and other
(2002)
|
|
Russia
|
Russian Orthodox 15%–20%, other Christian 2%, Islam 10%–15% (2006 est.;
includes practicing worshippers only)
|
|
Rwanda
|
Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Islam 4.6%,
indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% (2001)
|
|
St. Kitts and Nevis
|
Anglican, other Protestant, Roman Catholic
|
|
St. Lucia
|
Roman Catholic 68%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal 6%,
Evangelical 2%, Anglican 2%, other Christian 5%, Rastafarian 2%, none 5%
(2001)
|
|
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
|
Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13%, Hindu, Seventh-Day
Adventist, other Protestant
|
|
Samoa
|
Congregationalist 34.8%, Roman Catholic 19.6%, Methodist 15%, Latter-Day
Saints 12.7%, Assembly of God 6.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.5%, other
Christian 4.5%, Worship Centre 1.3%, other 1.7%, unspecified 0.1% (2001)
|
|
San Marino
|
Roman Catholic
|
|
São Tomé and Príncipe
|
Catholic 70%, Evangelical 3%, New Apostolic 2%, Adventist 2%, other 3%,
none 19% (2001)
|
|
Saudi Arabia
|
Islam 100%
|
|
Senegal
|
Islam 94%, Christian 5% (mostly Roman Catholic), indigenous 1%
|
|
Serbia
|
Serbian Orthodox, Muslim, Roman Catholic, Protestant
|
|
Seychelles
|
Roman Catholic 83%, Anglican 6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other
Christian 3%, Hindu 2%, Muslim 1%, none 1%
|
|
Sierra Leone
|
Islam 60%, indigenous 30%, Christian 10%
|
|
Singapore
|
Buddhist 43%, Islam 15%, Taoist 9%, Hindu 4%, Catholic 5%, other
Christian 10%, none 15% (2000)
|
|
Slovakia
|
Roman Catholic 69%, Protestant 11%, Greek Catholic 4%, none 13% (2001)
|
|
Slovenia
|
Catholic 58% Orthodox 2%, other Christian 1%, Islam 2%, none 10%
|
|
Solomon Islands
|
Church of Melanesia 33%, Roman Catholic 19%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11%,
United Church 10%, Christian Fellowship Church 2%, other Christian 4%
(1999)
|
|
Somalia
|
Islam (Sunni)
|
|
South Africa
|
Zion Christian 11%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8%, Catholic 7%, Methodist
7%, Dutch Reformed 7%, Anglican 4%, other Christian 36%, Islam 2%, none
15% (2001)
|
|
Spain
|
Roman Catholic 94%, other 6%
|
|
Sri Lanka
|
Buddhist 70%, Islam 8%, Hindu 7%, Christian 6% (2001)
|
|
Sudan
|
Islam (Sunni) 70% (in north), indigenous 25%, Christian 5% (mostly in
south and Khartoum)
|
|
Suriname
|
Hindu 27.4%, Protestant 25.2% (predominantly Moravian), Roman Catholic
22.8%, Islam 19.6%, indigenous 5%
|
|
Swaziland
|
Zionist (a blend of Christianity and indigenous ancestral worship) 40%;
Roman Catholic 20%; Muslim 10%; Anglican, Bahai, Methodist, Mormon,
Jewish, and other 30%
|
|
Sweden
|
Lutheran 87%, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish,
Buddhist
|
|
Switzerland
|
Roman Catholic 42%, Protestant 35%, Orthodox 2%, Muslim 4%, none 11%
(2000)
|
|
Syria
|
Islam (Sunni) 74%; Alawite, Druze, and other Islamic sects 16%;
Christian (various sects) 10%; Jewish (tiny communities in Damascus, Al
Qamishli, and Aleppo)
|
|
Taiwan
|
mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, other
2.5%
|
|
Tajikistan
|
Islam: Sunni 85%, Shiite 5%; other 10% (2003 est.)
|
|
Tanzania
|
mainland: Christian 30%, Islam 35%, indigenous 35%; Zanzibar: more than
99% Islam
|
|
Thailand
|
Buddhist 95%, Islam 5%, Christian 1% (2000)
|
|
Togo
|
Indigenous beliefs 51%, Christian 29%, Islam 20%
|
|
Tonga
|
Christian (Free Wesleyan Church claims over 30,000 adherents)
|
|
Trinidad and Tobago
|
Roman Catholic 26%, Anglican 8%, Baptist 7%, Pentecostal 7%, Seventh-Day
Adventist 4%, other Christian 6%, Hindu 22%, Islam 6%, none 2%
|
|
Tunisia
|
Islam (Sunni) 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish and other 1%
|
|
Turkey
|
Islam (mostly Sunni) 99.8%, other 0.2% (mostly Christians and Jews)
|
|
Turkmenistan
|
Islam 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2%
|
|
Tuvalu
|
Church of Tuvalu (Congregationalist) 97%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%,
Baha'i 1%
|
|
Uganda
|
Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Islam 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%
|
|
Ukraine
|
Ukrainian Orthodox (Kiev Patriarchate 19%, Moscow Patriarchate 9%, no
particular division 16%), Ukrainian Greek Catholic 6%, Ukrainian
Autocephalous Orthodox 2%, Protestant, Jewish, none 38% (2004)
|
|
United Arab Emirates
|
Islam 96% (Sunni 80%, Shiite 16%), Christian, Hindu, and other 4%
|
|
United Kingdom
|
Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%,
Muslim 2.7%, Hindu 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001)
|
|
United States
|
Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%,
none 10% (2002)
|
|
Uruguay
|
Roman Catholic 66%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%
|
|
Uzbekistan
|
Islam (mostly Sunnis) 88%, Eastern Orthodox 9%
|
|
Vanuatu
|
Presbyterian 31%, Anglican 13%, Roman Catholic 13%, Seventh-Day
Adventist 11%, other Christian 14%, indigenous beliefs 6% (including Jon
Frum Cargo cult), none 1%
|
|
Vatican City (Holy See)
|
Roman Catholic.
|
|
Venezuela
|
Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%
|
|
Vietnam
|
Buddhist 9%, Catholic 7%, Hoa Hao 2%, Cao Dai 1%, Protestant, Islam,
none 81%
|
|
Western Sahara (proposed state)
|
Islam
|
|
Yemen
|
Islam (including Sunni and Shiite), small numbers of Jewish, Christian,
and Hindu
|
|
Zambia
|
Christian 50%–75%, Islam and Hindu 24%–49%, indigenous beliefs 1%
|
|
Zimbabwe
|
syncretic (part Christian, part indigenous beliefs) 50%, Christian 25%,
indigenous beliefs 24%, Muslim and other 1%
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