Growth of Islam and World Religions

  (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License.) According to statistics from the U.N., Islam is now the worlds second largest religion after Christianity. The U.N. statistics state that the Islam annual growth rate of Islam is around 6.40% compared to 1.46% during the same time period for Christianity. Also according […]

List of countries by Muslim population

World Muslim population by percentage (Pew Research Center, 2009) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia Islam is the world’s second largest religion after Christianity. According to a 2010 study, Islam has 1.62 billion adherents, making up over 23% of the world population.[1][2] Islam is the predominant religion in the Middle East, in Sahel, in the Horn of Africa and northernAfrica,[3][4][5][6] and in some parts of Asia.[7]Africa […]

List of World Religions and Faith Traditions

  Written by the world’s leading authorities on religion and spirituality. In the column below, 50 major religious traditions are listed. For each, Patheos offers thorough, peer-reviewed, encyclopedic information that helps readers understand its origins, history, beliefs, rituals, ethics, and community structures. Click on the name of a religion to read in-depth articles. Religion Adherents […]

The Gospel in a Nutshell!

The Gospel in a Nutshell! The day is over, you are driving home. You tune in your radio. You hear a little blurb about a little village in India where some villagers have died suddenly, strangely, of a flu that has never been seen before. It’s not influenza, but three of four people are dead, and […]