Una ricerca del Pew Research Center. The former Yugoslavia spent much of the 1990s in turmoil, with a series of wars taking place amid the country’s breakup into its present-day states – each of which has a distinct ethnic and religious makeup. [Da www.pewresearch.org] YUGOSLAVIA

“Maronites, Copts, Melkites, Chaldeans … It is not easy to navigate among the various Christian communities in the Middle East, and explanations about their origins and differences are often unclear and confusing. This overview tries to instill some order”. [Da www.oasiscenter.eu] MIDDLE EAST

“Roughly a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in many places where communist regimes once repressed religious worship and promoted atheism, according to a major new Pew Research Center survey of 18 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.” [Da www.pewresearch.org del 10/05/2017] 9 KEY

“Roughly a quarter of a century after the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, a major new Pew Research Center survey finds that religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in many of the Central and Eastern European countries where communist regimes once repressed religious worship and promoted atheism.” [Da www.pewforum.org del 10/05/2017] … Continua a leggere Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe »

If demography is destiny, then Christianity’s future lies in Africa. By 2060, a plurality of Christians – more than four-in-ten – will call sub-Saharan Africa home, up from 26% in 2015, according to a new analysis of demographic data by Pew Research Center. [Da www.pewresearch.org] AFRICA

Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035; people with no religion face a birth dearth. [Da http://www.pewforum.org del 05/04/2017] RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE

La Comunione di chiese protestanti in Europa (CCPE) nasce nel 2003 come organismo ecumenico continentale che raggruppa 106 chiese luterane, metodiste, riformate e unite di oltre 30 paesi europei, in rappresentanza di circa 50 milioni di cristiani protestanti.  [Da www.nev.it] CCPE

Una interessante ricerca del Pew Research Center. ISLAM

Presente in Terra Santa con un piccola comunita’, ma forte di circa 18 milioni di fedeli nel mondo – quasi tutti in Egitto – la Chiesa Copta Ortodossa e’ la porzione di Chiesa di Alessandria d’Egitto che si stacco’ dalla Chiesa bizantina sulla scia del Concilio di Calcedonia, nel 451. [da www.terrasanta.com] COPTI

Le chiese valdesi, con un centinaio di comunità e una popolazione di circa 24.000 persone, sono le più antiche delle chiese protestanti presenti nel nostro paese. Dal 1979 esse sono integrate in un unico Sinodo con le chiese metodiste. [Da www.nev.it] VALDESI