Sentences with phrase «millions of adherents»

But of course, we should always be careful to distinguish between this extreme and hateful ideology, and the peaceful religion of Islam and the hundreds of millions of its adherents - including millions of our own citizens and those further afield who are so often the first victims of this ideology's terror.

The largest new religion in Japan, Soka Gakkai, grew from a small lay Buddhist movement in the 1930s to millions of adherents today.

There are tens of thousands of movements and communities, each of them counting thousands and, in some cases, millions of adherents.

So, millions of adherent Catholics on the African continent that die of AIDS should be happy that they were at least adherent to Catholic dogma?

Not exact matches

Pope Francis has 10.6 million twitter followers, and is the leader of a global religion that counts more than 1.2 billion people among its adherents.

Atheism has a long history of its adherents changing living people into dead ones by the millions.

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

In 1989 it reported a constituency in the U.S. of over 2 million served by over 11,000 churches and 30,000 ministers (it lists 16 million adherents worldwide) In 1969 the AG membership in the U.S. was only 592,000.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

Last week, the AG reported a gain of 48 churches and about 45,000 adherents (those who consider an AG church to be their church home) in 2015, bringing its total number of American adherents to 3.2 million.

By 2030, the United Kingdom will be just over 8 % Muslim, with more than 5.5 million adherents, the Washington - based think tank projected in a 2011 report, «The Future of the Global Muslim Population.»

Almost all of its growth has come from ethnic minorities, who compose more than 41 percent of its 3.1 million American adherents.

According to a 1991 census of India, out of the total Indian population of 846 million, there are 687.6 million Hindus of various sects, 101.6 million Muslims, 19.6 million Christians, 6.3 million Buddhists, 3.3 million Jains and 3.1 million adherents of other traditions.

Readers will gain insight into how a fringe and oft «maligned group that threatened to consume itself in a «fury of charismatic fire» grew to include 500 million adherents worldwide.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Methodism posted 9 million members, 36 million adherents and 150,000 ministers and lay preachers.

Adherents of the Tenth Amendment are skeptical that the federal government, so far removed from the fundamental acts of teaching and learning, is well suited to write laws and regulations governing how one hundred thousand schools educate more than fifty million students.