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Christianity in Kazakhstan is the second most practiced religion after Islam. About one-third 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.
Methodists, Mennonites, and Mormons have also registered churches with the government.
While about 44% of the population are Russian Orthodox and 2% is Protestant, 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. 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 registered with the government.
See also
- Bukharan Jews
- Judaism in Kazakhstan
- Hinduism in Kazakhstan
- Islam in Kazakhstan
- Roman Catholicism in Kazakhstan
References
- ^ International Religious Freedom Report 2008 U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan Cite error: The named reference "REPORT" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- Kazakhstan CIA The World Factbook
- https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kz.html
- "Итоги национальной переписи населения 2009 года (Summary of the 2009 national census)" (in Russian). Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
External links
Template:Christianity in Europe
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