[455] In Australia, census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics give "no religion" the largest gains in absolute numbers over the 15 years from 1991 to 2006, from 2,948,888 (18.2% of the population that answered the question) to 3,706,555 (21.0% of the population that answered the question). [29], Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, who was born in modern day Nepal and lived and taught in India in the 5th century BC. Answer (1 of 32): Negativity? [241], According to study published by the missionary statistician[242] and professor David B. Barrett of Columbia University,[243][244] and professor of global Christianity, historian George Thomas Kurian,[245] and both are work on World Christian Encyclopedia, approximately 2.7million converting to Christianity annually from another religion, World Christian Encyclopedia also cited that Christianity ranks at first place in net gains through religious conversion. [354][355][356][357][358], In 2010 Asia was home for (62%) of the world's Muslims, and about (20%) of the world's Muslims lived in the Middle East and North Africa, (16%) in Sub Saharan Africa, and 2% in Europe. Especially in the rural areas, the speed and scale of its development are much faster and larger than is the case with Buddhism and Christianity [] in Zhejiang province, where Christianity is better established than elsewhere, temples of folk religion are usually twenty or even a hundred times as numerous as Christian church buildings. [225][226], Religious conversions are projected to have a "modest impact on changes in the religious groups including Christian population" between 2010 and 2050;[227] and may negatively affect the growth of Christian population and it's share of the world's populations "slightly". Mohammed cant be trusted at all and you have no understanding of Christianity so dont post about stuff that you dont know. Studies in the 21st century suggest that, in terms of percentage and worldwide spread,[1][2] Islam is the fastest-growing major religion in the world. [515], The World Religion Database[516] (WRD) is a peer-reviewed database of international religious statistics based on research conducted at the Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs at Boston University. [4] This compares with a world population growth rate of 1.12% per year [5], and according to the World Christian Encyclopaedia, between 1990 and 2000, Islam received around 865,558 converts . [281] Syria is home to the largest Druzite community in the world, according to a study published by Columbia University, the number of Syrian Druze increased from 684,000 in 2010 to 730,000 in mid of 2018. [251] According to the Council on Foreign Relations the "number of Chinese Protestants has grown by an average of 10 percent annually since 1979". Stay happy. The majority of the Muslims are Bosniaks who also form the largest portion of the entire country's population (48%). [95] According to a poll conducted by the Gallup Organization in 2006, Christianity has increased significantly in Japan, particularly among youth, and a high number of teens are becoming Christians. . Although they purchased some toleration by paying the jizya (poll tax), not abolished until 1882, they were treated as an inferior race, had to wear distinctive garb, and were not allowed to ride horses or bear arms. The municipalities of Buim (99.7%) and Teoak (99.7%) have the highest share of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [334] On the other hand, the increasingly large ex-Muslim communities in the Western world that adhere to no religion have been well documented. [24][25][26], Some religions proselytise vigorously (Christianity and Islam, for example), while others (such as Hinduism, Judaism and Sikhism) do not generally encourage conversions into their ranks. You see Jesus Christ Lord be pleased with him has got a statue in Rio, hes got a beard but Christian bishops,fathers usually have shaved face. Religious communities tended to receive the most funding in areas where their adherents were in the majority. : Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious. [51] According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Christianity (1.38%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates and conversions in the global South were being cited as the major reasons of the Christian population growth. Since the year 2000, the Israeli Druze community has witnessed a significant decrease in fertility-rate and a significant increase in life expectancy. [4] [482] According to Gill Research Center , Sikhism is the fastest growing religion in India. [248] According to a study by a scholar Fenggang Yang from Purdue University, Christianity is "spreading among the Chinese of South-East Asia", and "Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity is growing more quickly in China",[249] also according to him, more than half of them have university degrees. [39], According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hinduism (1.52%) is one of the six fastest-growing religions in the world, with high birth rates in India being cited as the major reasons of the Hindu population growth. [96][97][98], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[48] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [320] While Muslim birth rates are expected to experience a decline, it will remain above replacement level and higher fertility than the world's overall by 2050. In September 2006 the Federation Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of the law, and the Federation Ministry of Spatial Planning was able again to launch an initiative for removal of the cross and foundations. Christianity is the world's largest religion with just over 2 billion followers. Islam is the world's second-largest religion, after Christianity. The Parsis will then cease to be called a community and will be labeled a 'tribe'. Lack of uniform protection posed obstacles to safeguarding minority rights, despite improved police and judicial protection for minorities in some parts of the country. [406] The result is that most countries in the Diaspora have steady or slightly declining religiously Jewish populations as Jews continue to assimilate into the countries in which they live. [73] Christianity is still the largest religion in Central and Eastern Europe, according to a 2017 study by the Pew Research Center, the share of adults who identify themselves as Eastern Orthodox in Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria has been significantly increased between 1991 and 2015. Bosnia is secular, and religion is spiritual rather than political. Muslims take 2.5% out of their salaries and use the funds give to the needy. According to Arvind Sharma, Hinduism "is typically quite comfortable with multiple religious participation, multiple religious affiliations, and even with multiple religious identities. [274][275] Even though the faith originally developed out of Ismaili Islam, Druze does not identify as a branch of Islam. The Catholics constitutes 15% of the total population most of whom are of Croat ethnic group. a. [337] The poll, conducted by the Netherlands-based GAMAAN (Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran), using online polling to provide greater anonymity for respondents, surveyed 50,000 Iranians and found 32% identified as Shia, 5% as Sunni and 3% as Sufi Muslim. [410][411] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahai (sic) was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN region. An illegally constructed Serbian Orthodox church remained on the land of a Bosniak returnee in the town of Konjevic Polje in the eastern RS, despite the RS Ministry of Urban Planning's 2004 decision that the church should be removed. [citation needed], During the interwar period between the World Wars, when Bosnia and Herzegovina became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, several members of Yugoslavian royalty had contact with prominent members of the Bah Faith. For example, offices of local Bosnian Serb mayors in the RS were often decorated with religious icons, although few officials practiced religion in any meaningful sense. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study. It is more important in Islam to participate in almsgiving than to believe in God and Muhammad. Islam is growing faster than Hinduism in India. For example, local police rarely made arrests in cases of vandalism against religious buildings or violence and harassment against religious officials or believers. They are polytheistic. [503] One-fifth of the decrease in population is attributed to migration. [3] A comprehensive religious forecast for 2050 by the Pew Research Center predicts that the global Muslim population will grow at a faster rate than the Christian population primarily due to the average younger age and higher fertility rate of Muslims. [124] Many people who convert to Christianity face persecution. Franjevaki provincijalat Bosne Srebrene. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. Today, India is home to the largest Sikh population with 1.8% of its population, or about 35 million people identifying as Sikh. However, 7% of Muslims either refused to answer which Muslim branch they belonged to, said they belonged to no Muslim branch or said they did not know. ", "Sikhs fastest-growing minority in NZ: Census", "There could be more Sikhs in the future maybe", "Our year-long exploration of religions ends with Unitarianian Universalism and paganism", "PRLog (Press Release) "Wicca"- The Fastest Growing Belief System in the World Today! This is because when the Bosnian war broke in 1992 it was . [89] According to scholar Michael Nai-Chiu Poon of University of Toronto conversion to Christianity is increasing among Chinese Singaporeans. [394] Additionally, while in principle Reform Judaism favors seeking new members for the faith, this position has not translated into active proselytism, instead of taking the form of an effort to reach out to non-Jewish spouses of intermarried couples. According to the CIA World Factbook, Orthodox Christians make up 30.7% of the country's population. [494][495] From the 10th century onwards,[496] Zoroastrians emigrated to Gujarat, India where they found asylum from unjust persecutions and since then are called Parsi, since Indians called Persia Faras and hence named them Parsi. In May 2007 the Islamic community began proceedings against the RS city of Banja Luka seeking damages of approximately $1.1 million (1.5 million Bosnian convertible marks) for the wartime destruction of all mosques in the city. . 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Peace out [24] Separate committees in Austria were established for the region of the former Yugoslavia. [395] Studies have shown that Haredi Jews population is rising rapidly due to the young age and very high fertility-rate,[396] especially in Israel. Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the second largest religious grouping in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Islam, and the most widespread denomination of Christian religion in the country. [449] (See the geographic distribution of atheism. For . [294], Generally, the term "conversion" is not applicable to Hindu traditions. Since 2010, the rate of increase was of 0.3% in the Americas and Europe. Pew Research Center reported that Islam is the fastest-growing religious group in the world compared to another religious group. [17][18], Counting the number of converts to a religion can prove difficult. [7] While according to other various scholars and sources Pentecostalism a Protestant Christian movement is the fastest growing religion in the world,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] this growth is primarily due to religious conversion and denomination switching among Christians. During the preelection period, the media and others often criticized the head of the BiH Islamic community for his appearance at public events with presidential candidate Haris Silajdzic and for his public statements calling on Silajdzic to "write a new constitution" so Bosniaks would honor him as they do wartime president Alija Izetbegovic. [345], The Pew Research Center notes that "the data that we have isn't pointing in the direction of 'Eurabia' at all",[346] and predicts that the percentage of Muslims is estimated to rise to 8% in 2030, due to immigration and above-average birth rates. Other unresolved restitution claims were politically and legally complicated. [54] According to Pew Research Center study, by 2050 the number of Christians in absolute number is expected to grow to more than double in the next few decades,[55] from 517 million to 1.1billion in Sub Saharan Africa,[55] from 531million to 665million in Latin America and Caribbean,[55] from 287 million to 381million in Asia,[55] and from 266 million to 287million in North America. Political parties dominated by a single ethnic group remained powerful and continued to identify closely with the religion associated with their predominant ethnic group. The head of the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Husein Kavazovi.[22]. Active plans for promoting the religion in the former Yugoslavia were designated in the Six Year Plan (which ran April 1986 to April 1992)[20] and extended in the Two Year Plan during which the region gained several local spiritual assemblies, all under the general guidance of the Bah's of Austria. Although the citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina is known as a Bosnian, in the country there is a distinction between a Herzegovinian and a Bosnian and is often maintained a regional but not an ethnic identity. The Serbian Orthodox Church maintains its greatest influence in the RS, with the most influential bishops residing in Banja Luka, Trebinje, and Bijeljina. Besides, Christianity has grown enormously in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. It is expected to increase up to 70million by 2100, given that the anticipated growth rate of 1.8% per year and adding at least 800,000 followers annually. It is interesting to see that the fastest growing religion in Australia is Islam while the fastest growing religion in Indonesia is Christianity. [39] As for religious conversion, the religiously unaffiliated is expected to have the largest net gains through religious conversion between 2010 and 2050, notably on Europe and Americas. Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. In the Federation's five cantons with Bosniak majorities, schools offer Islamic religious instruction as a 2-hour-per-week elective course. As per the Pew Research study, Muslim populations will grow in absolute number in all regions of the world between 2010 and 2050. However, they have long had a presence in the region, though in smaller numbers. [83] According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, around 9% of Latin Americans were raised as Protestant, but nearly 19% now identify themselves as Protestants. [278] Over the centuries a number of the Druze embraced Christianity,[224][223][279][280] Islam and other religions. For example, the Serbian Orthodox Church continued to seek the return of the building that housed the University of Sarajevo's Economic Faculty and compensation for the land on which the state parliament building is located. Local police frequently alleged that juveniles, intoxicated individuals, or mentally unstable persons were responsible for these attacks. [127] Indonesia is home to the largest Christian community made up of converts from their former Islamic faith; according to various sources, since the mid and late 1960s, between two million to 2.5 million Muslims converted to Christianity. [126][a] Countries with the largest numbers of Muslims converted to Christianity according to this study include Indonesia (6,500,000),[127] Nigeria (600,000),[127] Iran (500,000 versus only 500 in 1979),[127] the United States (450,000),[128] Ethiopia (400,000) and Algeria (380,000). Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina, and other neighboring countries, Croatian is a South Slavic language . The global Muslim population is projected to increase from 1.8 billion to 3 billion from 2015 to 2060. Change of Name and Identity strategies, between Culture of Origin and Migration]", "Over 20,000 converted to Christianity since 1990 in Kashmir", "Report: Iran: Christian converts and house churches (1) prevalence and conditions for religious practice Translation provided by the Office of the Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless Persons, Belgium", "Iranians Turn Away from the Islamic Republic", "Iran: Christians and Christian converts - Department of Justice", "2019 Report on International Religious Freedom: Iran", "Are Iran's Christian converts at greater risk after Soleimani's demise? [26] Religious switching is a sensitive topic in India,[522][19] and carries social and legal repercussions including the death penalty for apostasy in Muslim-majority countries. Wrong data. Some religious objects have been used to cause religious or ethnic tension and conflicts and use for political expediency. The farm technology hadn't been updated since the 1920s. [409] Since 2005, the world's Jewish population has been growing modestly at a rate of around 0.78% (in 2013). [339], It is often reported from various sources, including the German domestic intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst), that Salafism is the fastest-growing Islamic movement in the world. Croats are Catholics. [12] [407], In 1939, the core Jewish population reached its historical peak of 17 million (0.8% of the global population). Purple = Unaffiliated. Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. Based on the data from 49 Muslim-majority countries and territories, he found that Muslims' birth rate has significantly dropped for 41% between 1975 and 1980 to 200510 while the global population decline was 33% during that period. [265] It's been also reported that conversion into Christianity is significantly increasing among Korean,[266] Chinese,[267] and Japanese in the United States. [64][65][66][67] Since 1900, due primarily to conversion, Protestantism has spread rapidly in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. ), According to Pew Research Center survey in 2012, religiously unaffiliated (include agnostic and atheist) make up about 18.2% of Europe's population,[451] and they make up the majority of the population in only two European countries: Czech Republic (76%) and Estonia (60%). [70], In mid-2005 Christianity adds about 65.1 million people annually due to factors such as birth rate and religious conversion, while losing 27.4 million people annually due to factors such as death rate and religious apostasy. [476], Primarily for socio-economic reasons (Sikhs being the wealthiest and most educated of India's four major religious groups),[477] Indian Sikhs have the highest growth rate of any major religious group in India, at 20.1% per decade (from 2001 to 2011), compared to the national rate of 17.7% per decade. Projections of future religious adherence are based on assumptions that trends, total fertility rates, life expectancy, political climate, conversion rates, secularization, etc. . [18] In July, 1938, Marie of Edinburgh, a member of the religion[19] and Queen of Rumania, died. [26], According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, between 2010 and 2015 "an estimated 32 million babies were born to Buddhist mothers and roughly 20 million Buddhists died, meaning that the natural increase in the Buddhists population i.e., the number of births minus the number of deaths was 12 million over this period". [321] As per U.N.'s global population forecasts, as well as the Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the . [13], Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina comprising almost a third of the nation's population. [40] Further in detail, 12million people have passed some formal initiation into Taoism, or adhere to the official Chinese Taoist Association. [39], It was reported in 2013 that around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, with most of them being women. In fact, most of the world's major religious groups are expected to rise in absolute numbers by 2050, the research finds, with Islam set to overtake Christianity and become the world's dominant religion by 2070. The fastest growing religious classifications over the fifteen years between 2006 and 2021 were: . Bosnia and Herzegovina is a nation that has several religions, including Islam, Christianity (predoominately Orthodox and Roman Catholic), independent religions, and atheists. However, the other half remained in use as a public school. Bosniaks are mainly adherents of the Islamic religion, while Serbs are more likely to be followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Croats are mostly Roman Catholic. [61] According to various scholars and sources Pentecostalism a Protestant Christian movement is the fastest growing religion in the world,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] this growth is primarily due to religious conversion. Bosnian Genocide. However, due to this small initial population base, immigration from Muslim majority countries has . Over the next century, the Bosnians composed of native Christians and Slavic tribes living in the Bosnian kingdom under the name of Bonjani[9] were converted to Islam in great numbers during the Islamization of Bosnia under Ottoman rule. There were no reports of religious prisoners or detainees in the country, or of forced religious conversion. The map above shows which religion is the fastest growing in each country around the world based on data from Pew Research Center's The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050. It is due to the fall of the fertility rate in many Muslim majority countries. 16 February 2008. A message of condolence was communicated, in the name of all Bah communities in East and West, to her daughter, Maria, then Queen of Yugoslavia, to which she replied expressing "sincere thanks to all of Bahu'llh's followers. Surely thats all over the world from so many diasporas. By law, students (or their parents, in the case of primary school students) may choose not to attend the classes. This page was last edited on 28 April 2023, at 07:43. Statistics commonly measure the absolute number of adherents, the percentage of the absolute growth per-year, and the growth of . [246] On the other hand, demographer Conrad Hackett of Pew Research Center stated that the World Christian Encyclopedia gives a higher estimate for percent Christian when compared to other cross-national data sets. Although deadlines were set by authorities for removal of the church, no action had been taken by the end of the period covered by this report. [119] Khalil Bilici, while admitting that the limitations of their 2007 study database are too small, found a good number of Middle Eastern people are likely to convert to Christianity after leaving Islam. [66], The significant growth of Christianity in non-Western countries led to regional distribution changes of Christians. There wereclear reasons why Muslim governments would not want to encourage conversion to Islam. Islam will become the fastest-growing religion with a population of 2.76 billion by 2050. I want to assure you that Islam is the fastest and fastest growing religion in the world. Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia are said to have the fastest-growing Christian communities and the majority of the new believers are "upwardly mobile, urban, middle-class Chinese". The share of the global unaffiliated population living in Europe is projected to grow from 12% in 2010 to 13% in 2050. [40] Comparing this with other surveys, evidence suggests that nowadays three-fifths to four-fifths of the Chinese believe in folk religion.
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