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- Statisticians estimate that there may be up to a hundred million Christians in Nigeria.
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According to the Pew Research Center, in 2011, Nigeria had the largest Christian population of any country in Africa, with more than 80 million people in Nigeria belonging to various denominations. Christianity is the majority religion in the southern and central region in Nigeria.
The National Church of Nigeria. Nigeria has the largest Christian population in Africa according to Pew Research Center and it has the sixth largest Christian population in the world although the Christians in Nigeria are roughly about 40%-49.3% of the country's population.
Apr 17, 2023 · Over 50,000 Christians killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists. According to the report “Martyred Christians in Nigeria” issued by Intersociety, over the past 14 years at least 52,250 Nigerian Christians have been brutally murdered at the hands of Islamist militants. By Lisa Zengarini.
Jan 20, 2022 · This is despite nearly half of its population being Christian. This amounts to a total of 4,650 in the past year. Of those 16 Christians killed every day, at least 12 are from Nigeria. If the World Watch List was based purely on violence, Nigeria would be number one.
The majority of Nigeria’s approximately 70 million Christians are either Roman Catholic (at least 18.9 million) or Anglican (18 million), but a diverse group of Protestant churches also claim significant members, including Baptists (the Nigerian Baptist Convention claims 6 million worshipping members), Presbyterians, Assemblies of God ...
Aug 3, 2023 · Religion. Distribution of religions in Nigeria 2018. Published by. Doris Dokua Sasu , Aug 3, 2023. According to estimations from 2018, Nigeria's major religion is Islam. Over half of the...
Jun 1, 2021 · The evidence presented here suggests that while those who identify as Christians have been the majority in Nigeria, Christians seem unlikely to maintain their place as the largest religious group in Nigeria for long.
