Christianity is India's third-largest religion with about 26 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 census. The written...
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3rd century, perhaps in Edessa. The text describes Thomas' efforts in bringing Christianity to Northwest India, specifically in the Indo-Parthian Kingdom...
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2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India follows Hinduism, 14.2% follows Islam, 2.3% follows Christianity, 1.7% follows Sikhism, 0.7% follows Buddhism...
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Saint Thomas Christians (redirect from Syrian Christianity in India)
among the first converts to Christianity in the Near East. Historically, this community was organised as the Province of India of the Church of the East...
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(2018). A Social History of Christianity: North-west India since 1800. Oxford University Press. ISBNÂ 978-0-19-909757-9. In December 1921, the Punjabi-dominated...
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expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a variation of the old Aramaic language. In a wider sense, the term can also refer to Aramaic Christianity in general...
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who established Christianity in the Parthian Empire (Iran) and India. The very First Ecumenical Council was held in the city of Nicaea in Asia Minor (325)...
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The largest religion in the Nagaland state of India is Christianity. According to the 2011 census, the state's population was 1,978,502, out of which 87...
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field. By the early 1900s, other Protestant denominations of Christianity were active in Meghalaya. The outbreak of World Wars forced the preachers to...
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Christianity in the state of Tamil Nadu, India is the second largest religion in the state. According to tradition, St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles...
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