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Christianity in Kazakhstan is the second most practiced religion after Islam. Over one-quarter of the population of Kazakhstan identifies as Christian. The majority of Christian citizens are Russians, including Ukrainians and Belarusians, who belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. About 1.5 percent of the population is ethnically German, most of whom follow Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism. There are also many Presbyterians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals.〔(International Religious Freedom Report 2008 ) U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan〕〔(Kazakhstan ) CIA The World Factbook〕 Methodists, Mennonites, and Mormons have also registered churches with the government.〔 There are more Protestant congregations - 93 "nontraditional" Protestant Christian churches registered with the Kazakh government from 2006 to 2007. There are 83 Roman Catholic churches in Kazakhstan.〔(International Religious Freedom Report 2006 ) U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan〕 According to a 2009 national census, 26% of Kazakhstan's population is Christian. There are two Baptist organizations in Kazakhstan: the Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians and Baptists, with 1,000 members, and the Baptist Union of Kazakhstan, with 10,000 members. 198 churches affiliated with the Baptist Union are registered with the government.〔 ==Demographics== According to the 2009 Census, there were 4,214,232 Christians in Kazakhstan. Their ethnic affiliation is as follows:〔http://www.stat.kz/p_perepis/Documents/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%20%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2.rar〕 *Russians - 3,476,748 (91.6% of the ethnic Russians) *Ukrainians - 302,199 (90.7% of Ukrainians) *Germans - 145,556 (81.6%) *Belarusians - 59,936 (90.2%) *Koreans - 49,543 (49.4%) *Kazakhs - 39,172 (0.4%) *Polish - 30,675 (90.1%) *Tatars - 20,913 (10.2%) *Azeris - 2,139 (2.5%) *Uzbeks - 1,794 (0.4%) *Uighurs - 1,142 (0.5%) *Chechens - 940 (3.0%) *Tajiks - 331 (0.9%) *Turkish - 290 (0.3%) *Kyrgyz - 206 (0.9%) *Kurds - 203 (0.5%) *Dungan - 191 (0.4%) *Other minorities - 82,254 (52.3%) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christianity in Kazakhstan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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