What is the largest religion in India?

Religion in India
  • Religion in India is characterized by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. ...
  • According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India practices Hinduism, 14.2% adheres to Islam, 2.3% adheres to Christianity, 1.7% adheres to Sikhism, 0.7% adheres to Buddhism, and 0.4% adheres to Jainism.
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What is India's main religion?

While 94% of the world's Hindus live in India, there also are substantial populations of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and adherents of folk religions. For most Indians, faith is important: In a 2015 Pew Research Center survey, eight-in-ten Indians said religion is very important in their lives.
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Which religion has highest population in India?

The religious make-up of Indians
  • Hindus make up 79.8% of India's 1.2 billion people in the 2011 census. ...
  • Muslims comprise 14.2% of Indians. ...
  • Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains together make up 6% of the population.
  • Only about 30,000 Indians described themselves as atheists in 2011.
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Who wrote the Quran?

Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning in the month of Ramadan, when Muhammad was 40; and concluding in 632, the year of his death.
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Who is the founder of Islam?

The rise of Islam is intrinsically linked with the Prophet Muhammad, believed by Muslims to be the last in a long line of prophets that includes Moses and Jesus.
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What is China's official religion?

The government recognizes five official religions – Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism.
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Which is the main religion of China?

Chinese Buddhism and Folk Religions

Though Buddhism originated in India, it has a long history and tradition in China and today is the country's largest institutionalized religion.
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Which country has the most Muslims?

The country with the largest number (about 209 million) is Indonesia, where 87.2% of the population identifies as Muslim. India has the world's second-largest Muslim population in raw numbers (roughly 176 million), though Muslims make up just 14.4% of India's total population.
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What is Japan's main religion?

Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan itself. It remains Japan's major religion alongside Buddhism.
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What religion is in Pakistan?

The constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and requires all provisions of the law to be consistent with Islam.
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Are there Muslims in Russia?

Living in the country today are more than 20 million Muslims, including members of more than 30 indigenous Russian nations," according to Talib Saidbaev, advisor to the Head Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia.
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What is main religion in Russia?

Today Russian Orthodoxy is the country's largest religious denomination, representing more than half of all adherents. Organized religion was repressed by Soviet authorities for most of the 20th century, and the nonreligious still constitute more than one-fourth of the population.
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What religion is in Korea?

South Korea is a country where all the world's major religions, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam, peacefully coexist with shamanism. According to the 2015 statistics, 44% of South Koreans identified with a religion.
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What religion is North Korea?

Officially, North Korea is an atheist state. Based on estimates from the late 1990s and the 2000s, North Korea is mostly irreligious, with the main religions being Shamanism and Chondoism. There are small communities of Buddhists and Christians.
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What's the main religion in Korea?

Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the Constitution in Korea. According to a 1995 social statistics survey, 50.7 percent of Koreans follow a specific religious faith. Buddhists account for some 46 percent followed by Protestants at 39 percent and Catholics at 13 percent of the religious population.
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Does Russia allow religion?

The 1997 Law. The Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations ( a.k.a. the 1997 Law) declares all religions equal before the law, prohibits government interference in religion, and establishes simple registration procedures for religious groups. The country is by law a secular state without a state religion ...
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Where is religion banned?

Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan have significant restrictions against the practice of religion in general, and other countries like China discourage it on a wide basis. Several countries in Asia establish a state religion, with Islam (usually Sunni Islam) being the most common, followed by Buddhism.
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What religions are ban in China?

China is officially an atheist state and Communist Party members are banned from believing in or practicing any faith; there is concern that religion can function as an alternative to Communism and thus undermine loyalty to the government.
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Which prophet was killed in Islam?

In Medina, located in present-day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, dies in the arms of Aisha, his third and favorite wife.
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Who is Muhammad in the Bible?

The name of "Muhammad" is frequently mentioned verbatim in the Gospel of Barnabas, as in the following quote: Jesus answered: "The name of the Messiah is admirable, for God himself gave him the name when he had created his soul, and placed it in a celestial splendour.
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How did Muhammad look?

He had black eyes that were large with long lashes. His joints were rather large. He had little hairs that stood up, extending from his chest down to his navel, but the rest of his body was almost hairless. “He had thick palms and thick fingers and toes.
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Are there Muslims in Korea?

The Muslim community is centered in Seoul and there are a few mosques around the country. According to the Korea Muslim Federation, there are about 100,000 Muslims living in South Korea, and about 70 to 80 percent are foreigners. Seoul alone has 40% of South Korea's total Muslim population.
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