Persians

Three major ethnic groups in Southwest Asia include Persians, Kurds, and Arabs.

This week we are learning about three of the major ethnic groups of Southwest Asia: Arabs, Persians, and Kurds.

Persians live in the modern country of Iran. Descended from a different group than those who are Arabs or Jews. Ancestors were Indo-Europeans from Central Europe and Southern Russia. Persia became known as Iran after World War I.

Persian

Asia is the largest and most populous continent and the birthplace of many religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism….Eastern Asia.

Adherents in 2020

Roughly 48.9% of Americans are Protestants, 23.0% are Catholics, 1.8% are Mormons (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Christianity was introduced during the period of European colonization. The United States has the world’s largest Christian population.

Many of the founding fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and Monroe—practiced a faith called Deism. Deism is a philosophical belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems.

All Protestant denominations accounted for 48.5% of the population, making Protestantism the most prevalent form of Christianity in the country and the majority religion in general in the United States, while the Catholic Church by itself, at 22.7%, is the largest individual denomination.

“The Muslim population is growing in the United States. We project that by the year 2050, there will be more Muslims than [Jews] or Hindus or Buddhists in the U.S. Currently, about 1 percent of the U.S. population is Muslim, and that’s gonna increase by a couple of percentage points in the decades to come.

The Southern Baptist Convention

At least some Baptists do not consider themselves “Protestants.” This is to emphasize their sense that, insofar as the Protestant Reformation was as a contest between the Roman Catholic Church and reformers who sought to protest certain features of the Catholic Church and to reestablish the Church on what they …

national bodies with more than 5 million members. non-national bodies with more than 5 million members….Non-national bodies.

China is home to the world’s largest Protestant minority.

Countries/Districts

The majority of Germany’s Christians are registered as either Catholic (22.6 million) or Protestant (20.7 million). The Protestant Church has its roots in Lutheranism and other denominations that rose out of the 16th-century religious reform movement.

Catholicism made up a plurality of the population in four states: New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island….By state.

In the 2011 census, 16% of the population of Scotland described themselves as being Catholic, compared with 32% affiliated with the Church of Scotland. Owing to immigration (overwhelmingly white European), it is estimated that, in 2009, there were about 850,000 Catholics in a country of 5.1 million.

In the spring of 2016 the Pew Research Center found that 81.7% of the population of Italy was affiliated with the Catholic Church, out of a Christian population of 85.1%; non-religious people comprised the 11.6% of the total population and were divided in atheists (3.1%), agnostics (2.5%) and “nothing in particular” ( …

Traditionally, Italy has had the highest church attendance figures in western Europe. Unlike Britain, Germany and Spain, the number of churchgoers was also thought to be stable. Government surveys have shown that around 30 per cent of Italians attend Mass every Sunday, and a further 20 per cent attend once a month.

List of districts in Northern Ireland by religion or religion brought up in

Sunday attendance at mass has dropped to about 10 percent of the population in France today, but 80 percent of French citizens are still nominally Roman Catholics. This makes France the sixth largest Catholic country in the world, after Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Italy and… the United States.