Did you know that In total of 126 countries (including U.S.A) have Christian Mayority while 71 country (including china) have a Christian minority. As of the early 21st century, Christianity has around 2.3 billion adherents, out of about 7 billion people.[1][2][3][4] The faith represents one-third of the worlds population and is the largest religion in the world, with the three largest groups of Christiansbeing the Catholic Church, Protestantism, and theEastern Orthodox Church.[5] The largest Christian denomination is the Catholic Church, with 1.09 billion adherents.[6] The second largest denomination is either Protestantism (if it is considered a single group), or the Eastern Orthodox Church (if Protestants are considered to be divided into multiple denominations). Christianity is the predominant religion in Europe,Russia, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor,Southern Africa, Central Africa, East Africa andOceania.[7] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such asCentral Asia and the Middle East, where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States of America has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil andMexico.[8] Christianity, in one form or another, is the state religion of the following 15 nations: Argentina(Roman Catholic Church),[9] Bolivia (Roman Catholic Church and Christianity),[10] Costa Rica (Roman Catholic Church),[11] Denmark (Danish National Church),[12] El Salvador (Roman Catholic Church),[13]England (Church of England),[14] Greece (Church of Greece), Armenia (Armenian Apostolic Church),Georgia (Georgian Orthodox Church),[15][16]Ethiopia(Tewahedo Church)[17][18] Iceland (Church of Iceland),[19] Liechtenstein (Roman Catholic Church),[20] Malta (Roman Catholic Church),[21]Monaco (Roman Catholic Church),[22] Norway (Church of Norway),[23] Vatican City (Roman Catholic Church).[24] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country
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