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    Christianity is the world's largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers. It is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and believers see Jesus as the Son of God. The four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John describe Jesus' life and teachings. Christianity has diversified into various denominations over doctrinal and ecclesiastical disputes.

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    Christianity 

    is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of
    Nazareth. It is the world's largest religion, with about 2.5 billion followers.[1] Its adherents, known
    as Christians, make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories,[2] and believe
    that Jesus is the Son of God, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew
    Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament.[3]
    Christianity remains culturally diverse in its Western and Eastern branches, as well as in its doctrines
    concerning justification and the nature of salvation, ecclesiology, ordination, and Christology.
    The creeds of various Christian denominations generally hold in common Jesus as the Son of God—
    the Logos incarnated—who ministered, suffered, and died on a cross, but rose from the dead for
    the salvation of mankind; and referred to as the gospel, meaning the "good news". Describing Jesus'
    life and teachings are the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, with the Old
    Testament as the gospel's respected background.
    Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century in the Roman province
    of Judea. Jesus' apostles and their followers spread around
    the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite initial
    persecution. It soon attracted gentile God-fearers, which led to a departure from Jewish customs,
    and, after the Fall of Jerusalem, AD 70 which ended the Temple-based Judaism, Christianity
    slowly separated from Judaism. Emperor Constantine the Great decriminalized Christianity in the
    Roman Empire by the Edict of Milan (313), later convening the Council of Nicaea (325) where Early
    Christianity was consolidated into what would become the State church of the Roman Empire (380).
    The early history of Christianity's united church before major schisms is sometimes referred to as the
    "Great Church" (though divergent sects existed at the same time, including Gnostics and Jewish
    Christians). The Church of the East split after the Council of Ephesus (431) and Oriental
    Orthodoxy split after the Council of Chalcedon (451) over differences in Christology,[4] while
    the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church separated in the East–West Schism (1054),
    especially over the authority of the bishop of Rome. Protestantism split in numerous denominations
    from the Catholic Church in the Reformation era (16th century)
    over theological and ecclesiological disputes, most predominantly on the issue of justification and
    the primacy of the bishop of Rome. Christianity played a prominent role in
    the development of Western civilization, particularly in Europe from late antiquity and the Middle
    Ages.[5][6][7][8] Following the Age of Discovery (15th–17th century), Christianity was spread into
    the Americas, Oceania, sub-Saharan Africa, and the rest of the world via missionary work.[9][10][11]
    The four largest branches of Christianity are the Catholic Church (1.3 billion/50.1%), Protestantism
    (920 million/36.7%), the Eastern Orthodox Church (230 million), and the Oriental Orthodox churches
    (62 million) (Orthodox churches combined at 11.9%),[12][13] though thousands of smaller church
    communities exist despite efforts toward unity (ecumenism).[14] Despite a decline in adherence in
    the West, Christianity remains the dominant religion in the region, with about 70% of that population
    identifying as Christian.[15] Christianity is growing in Africa and Asia, the world's most populous
    continents.[16] Christians remain persecuted in some regions of the world, especially in the Middle
    East, North Africa, East Asia, and South Asia.[17][18]

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