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    Acknowledgments

    This report was produced by Pew Research Center as part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Future project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. Funding for the Global Religious Futures project comes from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation. This report is a collaborative effort based on […]

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    Methodology

    This report brings together analysis of survey and demographic data from various previously published Pew Research Center reports. It also includes new analysis of the religious beliefs and practices of Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia and historical data on the distribution of Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants around the world. Attitudinal data was collected through nationally […]

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    Q&A: A closer look at Orthodox Christians

    Read a Q&A with George Demacopolous, a professor of theology at Fordham University, to examine trends and issues in the Orthodox Christian world.

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    Appendix D: Detailed religious affiliation by broader religious affiliation

    Christian Armenian Christian Baptist Catholic Chaldean Christian Coptic Evangelical Christian Greek Orthodox Jehovah Witness Lutheran Mennonite Methodist Old Believer Orthodox Oriental Orthodoxy Pentecostalist Protestant Russian Orthodox Seventh Day Adventist Ukranian Orthodox Ukrainian autocephalous orthodox Ukrainian Orthodox Kyivan Patriarchate Uniate   Muslim Ahmadiyya Moslem Moslem Ismaici Moslem Shiite Moslem Sunni   Other Religions Ancestral Worship Animist […]

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    Methodology

    Pew Research Center measured relationships between religion and government in 199 countries and self-administering territories, using data for the year ending Dec. 31, 2015. They include the 193 member states of the United Nations as of 2015, plus six self-administering territories – Kosovo, Hong Kong, Macau, the Palestinian territories, Taiwan and Western Sahara. The study […]