Christians (English Wikipedia)

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"Major Religions Ranked by Size". Adherents.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2009.

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Martin, Michael (1993). The Case Against Christianity. Temple University Press. p. 12. ISBN 1-56639-081-8.

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"Вселенские Соборы - профессор Антон Владимирович Карташёв - читать, скачать". azbyka.ru.

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"Christian persecution 'at near genocide levels'". BBC News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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"Acts 11:26 and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch". biblehub.com.

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"المسيحيون العرب يتفوقون على يهود إسرائيل في التعليم". Bokra. Retrieved 28 December 2011.

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Melton, J. Gordon (2005). Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Infobase Publishing. pp. 284–285. ISBN 978-0-8160-6983-5. Today, the Christian community in India includes approximately 62 million people, about 6 percent of the population. Of these, 14 million are Roman Catholic and 3 million are Orthodox.
Melton, J. Gordon; Baumann, Martin (2010). Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, 2nd Edition [6 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1399, 1401–1403. ISBN 978-1-59884-204-3. Protestants 21,100,000 Independents 18,200,000 Roman Catholics 21,700,000 (2010)
Bickerman (1949) p. 145, "The Christians got their appellation from 'Christus,' that is, 'the Anointed,' the Messiah." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.
Bickerman, 1949 p. 147, "All these Greek terms, formed with the Latin suffix -ianus, exactly as the Latin words of the same derivation, express the idea that the men or things referred to, belong to the person to whose name the suffix is added."
p. 145, "In Latin this suffix produced proper names of the type Marcianus and, on the other hand, derivatives from the name of a person, which referred to his belongings, like fundus Narcissianus, or, by extension, to his adherents, Ciceroniani." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.
Rogers, Samuel (2004). Webster, Tom; Shipps, Kenneth W. (eds.). The Diary of Samuel Rogers, 1634–1638. Boydell Press. p. 4. ISBN 9781843830436. Retrieved 8 January 2019. Throughout his diary, Rogers abbreviates 'Christ' to 'X' and the same is true of 'Christian' ('Xian'), 'Antichrist' ('AntiX') and related words.
#Wuest-1973 p. 19. "The word is used three times in the New Testament, and each time as a term of reproach or derision. Here in Antioch, the name Christianos was coined to distinguish the worshippers of the Christ from the Kaisarianos, the worshippers of Caesar." Wuest, Kenneth Samuel (1973). Wuest's word studies from the Greek New Testament. Vol. 1. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-2280-2.
#Wuest-1973 p. 19. "The city of Antioch in Syria had a reputation for coining nicknames." Wuest, Kenneth Samuel (1973). Wuest's word studies from the Greek New Testament. Vol. 1. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-2280-2.
Tacitus, Cornelius; Murphy, Arthur (1836). The works of Cornelius Tacitus: with an essay on his life and genius, notes, supplements, &c. Thomas Wardle. p. 287.
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Philpott, Daniel; Shah, Timothy Samuel (15 March 2018). Under Caesar's Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42530-8.
Compare: Cross, Frank Leslie; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., eds. (1957). "Christian". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press (published 2005). p. 336. ISBN 9780192802903. Retrieved 5 December 2016. In modern times the name Christian ... has tended, in nominally Christian countries, to lose any credal significance and imply only that which is ethically praiseworthy (e.g. 'a Christian action') or socially customary ('Christian name').
Compare: Sandmel, Samuel (1967). We Jews and You Christians: An Inquiry Into Attitudes. Lippincott. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
Pacini, Andrea (1998). Christian Communities in the Arab Middle East. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198293880. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
Chazan, Robert (2006). The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000–1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xi. ISBN 9780521616645. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

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Schaff, Philip. "V. St. Paul and the Conversion of the Gentiles (Note 496)". History of the Christian Church.
Josephus. "Antiquities of the Jews — XVIII, 3:3". Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Translated by William Whiston. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023.

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Weber, Jeremy. "'Worst year yet': the top 50 countries where it's hardest to be a Christian". Christianity Today. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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Mounstephen, Philip. "Interim report". Bishop of Truro's Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians. April 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
Mounstephen, Philip. "Final Report and Recommendations". Bishop of Truro's Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians. July 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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33.39% of 7.174 billion world population (under "People and Society") "World". CIA world facts. 25 February 2022.

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Frank, Robert (14 January 2015). "The religion of millionaires". CNBC.

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"Christians hold largest percentage of global wealth: Report". deccanherald.com. 14 January 2015.

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Bickerman (1949) p. 145, "The Christians got their appellation from 'Christus,' that is, 'the Anointed,' the Messiah." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.
Bickerman, 1949 p. 147, "All these Greek terms, formed with the Latin suffix -ianus, exactly as the Latin words of the same derivation, express the idea that the men or things referred to, belong to the person to whose name the suffix is added."
p. 145, "In Latin this suffix produced proper names of the type Marcianus and, on the other hand, derivatives from the name of a person, which referred to his belongings, like fundus Narcissianus, or, by extension, to his adherents, Ciceroniani." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.

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"Catholic priest in saffron robe called 'Isai Baba'". The Indian Express. 24 December 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012.

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Enos, Olivia. "North Korea is the world's worst persecutor of Christians". Forbes. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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"The List: The World's Fastest-Growing Religions". foreignpolicy.com. March 2007. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2010.

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Baruch A. Shalev, 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (2003), Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, p. 57: "between 1901 and 2000 reveals that 654 Laureates belong to 28 different religions. Most (65.4%) have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference."ISBN 978-0-935047-37-0.

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"Christianity 2015: Religious Diversity and Personal Contact" (PDF). gordonconwell.edu. January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2015.

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"In China, Protestantism's Simplicity Yields More Converts Than Catholicism". International Business Times. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

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Johnson, Todd M.; Grim, Brian J. (2013). The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography (PDF). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

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Bickerman (1949) p. 145, "The Christians got their appellation from 'Christus,' that is, 'the Anointed,' the Messiah." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.
Bickerman, 1949 p. 147, "All these Greek terms, formed with the Latin suffix -ianus, exactly as the Latin words of the same derivation, express the idea that the men or things referred to, belong to the person to whose name the suffix is added."
p. 145, "In Latin this suffix produced proper names of the type Marcianus and, on the other hand, derivatives from the name of a person, which referred to his belongings, like fundus Narcissianus, or, by extension, to his adherents, Ciceroniani." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.

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"Number of Christians in China and India". Lausanne. 8 July 2011. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.

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Kay, Barbara. "Our politicians may not care, but Christians are under siege across the world". National Post. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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Bickerman (1949) p. 145, "The Christians got their appellation from 'Christus,' that is, 'the Anointed,' the Messiah." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.
Bickerman, 1949 p. 147, "All these Greek terms, formed with the Latin suffix -ianus, exactly as the Latin words of the same derivation, express the idea that the men or things referred to, belong to the person to whose name the suffix is added."
p. 145, "In Latin this suffix produced proper names of the type Marcianus and, on the other hand, derivatives from the name of a person, which referred to his belongings, like fundus Narcissianus, or, by extension, to his adherents, Ciceroniani." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.

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Wintour, Patrick. "Persecution of Christians coming close to genocide' in Middle East – report". The Guardian. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.

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"Christianity 2015: Religious Diversity and Personal Contact" (PDF). gordonconwell.edu. January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
Johnson, Todd M.; Grim, Brian J. (2013). The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography (PDF). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
Josephus. "Antiquities of the Jews — XVIII, 3:3". Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Translated by William Whiston. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023.
Society for Internet Research, The Hamas Charter Archived 25 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine, note 62 (erroneously, "salidi").
"Nasara". Mazyan Bizaf Show. Archived from the original on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
"Catholic priest in saffron robe called 'Isai Baba'". The Indian Express. 24 December 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012.
"The List: The World's Fastest-Growing Religions". foreignpolicy.com. March 2007. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
"Major Religions Ranked by Size". Adherents.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
"Number of Christians in China and India". Lausanne. 8 July 2011. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
Graves, Daniel (7 July 1998). "Christian Influences in the Sciences". rae.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
"50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God". Archived from the original on 17 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Many well-known historical figures who influenced Western science considered themselves Christian such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell.
Worldwatchlist2020, Most dangerous countries for Christians. "Serving Persecuted Christians – Open Doors USA". www.opendoorsusa.org. Archived from the original on 2 March 2000. Retrieved 24 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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Bickerman (1949) p. 145, "The Christians got their appellation from 'Christus,' that is, 'the Anointed,' the Messiah." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.
Bickerman, 1949 p. 147, "All these Greek terms, formed with the Latin suffix -ianus, exactly as the Latin words of the same derivation, express the idea that the men or things referred to, belong to the person to whose name the suffix is added."
p. 145, "In Latin this suffix produced proper names of the type Marcianus and, on the other hand, derivatives from the name of a person, which referred to his belongings, like fundus Narcissianus, or, by extension, to his adherents, Ciceroniani." Bickerman, Elias J. (April 1949). "The Name of Christians". The Harvard Theological Review. 42 (2): 109–124. doi:10.1017/s0017816000019635. ISSN 0017-8160. JSTOR 1507955. S2CID 164195885. (from which page numbers are cited) also available in Bickerman, Elias J. (1986). Studies in Jewish and Christian history. Vol. 2. BRILL. pp. 794–808. ISBN 90-04-04395-0.

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Johnson, Todd M.; Grim, Brian J., eds. (2020). "All Religions (global totals)". World Religion Database. Leiden, Boston: BRILL, Boston University.