Until the beginning of the British Mandate in Palestine ( 1922 – 1948 ), the population was predominantly Arab Christian ( majority Orthodox Christians ), with an Arab Muslim minority.

A minority within the Orthodox tradition believe that some of these differences are not a reflection of religious law, but rather of cultural, social, and historical causes.

The treaty provided for the independence of the Republic of Turkey but also for the protection of the Greek Orthodox Christian minority in Turkey and the Muslim minority in Greece.

The nation is 88 % Muslim ( mostly Sunni, with a 5 % Shi ' a minority ), 9 % Eastern Orthodox and 3 % other faiths ( which include small communities of Korean Christians, other Christian denominations, Buddhists, Baha ' is, and more ).

Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos, Vilnius | Cathedral of the Theotokos, with Gediminas's Tower in background Lithuanians at the time, were a tiny minority, less than 10 % of the population.

In recent years there has been a growing willingness of non-Orthodox Jews to study the Zohar, and a growing minority have a position that is similar to the Modern Orthodox position described above.

The Turkish state only recognizes the Patriarch as the spiritual leader of the Greek minority in Turkey, and officially refers to him as the " Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Phanar " () ( Phanar is the neighbourhood in Istanbul where the patriarchate is located ).

In 1869 the Orthodox minority in Berlin-" Adath Yisrael ", comprising about 200 families-were dissatisfied with the local rabbi, and chose Hildesheimer to represent them as an " Orthodox rabbi of standing ".

* Orthodox Church of Albania also known as " Greek Orthodox Church of Albania " led since the collapse of the former Stalinist régime by Archbishop Anastasios, a Greek national, the Church conducts its liturgy in Koine Greek in the areas of Albania populated by the ethnic Greek minority.

The Ossetians are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christian, with a Muslim minority.

The vast majority of the Ossetians are Orthodox Christians ; there is also a significant Muslim minority.

Although generally tolerated by the Orthodox Church, the minority religious, spiritual and philosophical views and beliefs co-exist somewhat uneasily.

There is a minority of Hareidi non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews ( typically called Litvish or Yeshivish ), with a smaller number of Modern Orthodox Jews.

The Romanian Orthodox Church also has jurisdiction over a minority of believers in Moldova, who belong to the Metropolis of Bessarabia, as opposed to the majority, who belong to the Moldovan Orthodox Church, under the Moscow Patriarchate.

However, Orthodox Christians were only a small minority in Eastern Belarus at that time ; the prevailing majority of the country's population was Eastern rite Catholics.

In the 17th century the tension between the Lutheran Swedish government and Orthodox Karelians triggered a mass migration from these areas into the region of Tver in Russia, forming the Tver Karelians minority.

Other unfulfilled obligations include Christian minority rights, acknowledgement of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople and the role of the Ecumenical Patriarch.

Within Ukraine itself, the UGCC is a minority faith of the religious population, being a distant second to the majority Eastern Orthodox faith.

The Orthodox Church was generally left unmolested after the war and was even allowed to print small amounts of religious literature, but persecution of minority religions was resumed.

The main religion is Russian Orthodox Christianity, while a minority is Muslim.

Mostly Russian Orthodox Christian with Muslim minority of about 13 %.

During the Middle Ages, most of the remainder of Europe was Christianized, with Christians also being a sometimes large religious minority in the Middle East, North Africa, Ethiopia and parts of India.

Since most Christians today subscribe to the doctrines established by the Nicene Creed, modern Christian theologians tend to regard the early debates as a unified orthodox position against a minority of heretics.

While most Christians believe Jesus ' resurrection was in a material body ; which was seen by over 500 people, a very small minority believe it was spiritual.

They are observed by Jews and a minority of Christians.

Jewish Shabbat is a weekly day of rest cognate to Christian Sabbath, observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night ; it is also observed by a minority of Christians.

To a minority of Christians, nontrinitarians, the term " Son of God ", applied to Jesus in the New Testament, is accepted, while the non-biblical but less ambiguous " God the Son " is not.

Churches representing a minority of Christians permit monogamy with homosexuals.

The British had practised communal favoritism towards Christians and the minority Tamil community for the entire 200 years they had controlled Sri Lanka, as part of a policy of divide and conquer.

A minority of Christians do not regard the day they attend church as important, so long as they attend, as the apostles and disciples gathered on Sundays, on Saturdays, and whenever they could.

She stated that she strongly opposed bigotry, discrimination and dogma, which she believes are promoted by a small minority of Christians.

80 % of the population are Christians, the next highest religious minority were Muslims making up 0. 4 %.

Though a minority of scholars follow the Augustinian hypothesis, most scholars ( including Christians and non-Christians ) date the composition of the Christian gospels to between 70 and 100 CE, a time after Christianity had separated from Judaism ( and after Pharisaism emerged as the dominant form of Judaism ).

Large percentages were also Arabic, Berber, Iberian native converts ( muwallads ), native Christians, and a Jewish minority.

It stated, in addition, that " Despite their tolerance toward minority religious groups traditional to the country — including Catholics, Armenian Apostolic Christians, Jews, and Muslims — citizens remain very apprehensive about Protestants and other nontraditional religions, which they see as taking advantage of the populace's economic hardship by gaining membership through handing out economic assistance to converts.

She claims that she is referring not only to racial minorities, but any numerical minority group, such as fundamentalist Christians, the Amish, or in states such as Alabama, Democrats ; she also states that she does not advocate any single procedural rule, but rather that all alternatives be considered in the context of litigation " after the court finds a legal violation.

Eighteenth century Ireland was a sectarian state, ruled by a small Anglican minority, over both a majority Catholic population ( most of whose ancestors had been dispossessed of land and political power in the 17th century Plantations of Ireland ), as well to the exclusion of Presbyterian and dissenting Christians from high political office.

Writing in 2010, Devika and Varghese noted that " St. Thomas Christians are at present a substantial minority, a powerful presence in all fields of life in Kerala.

Today nontrinitarians represent a small minority of professed Christians.

( The minority Non-Trinitarian Christians object to this terminology ).

Arabs formed the population base ( religious, industrial, and commercial functions ) and the general population included the original inhabitants of the city, immigrants from different parts of Syria, North Africans who accompanied Qalawun's army during the liberation of Tripoli, eastern Christians, some Western families, and a minority of Jews.

Indeed, the Christian population in the original territories of the Antiochene patriarchs has been all but eliminated by assimilation and expulsion, with the region's current Christians forming a small minority.

When Stone and Alexander Campbell's Reformers ( also known as Disciples and Christian Baptists ) united in 1832, only a minority of Christians from the Smith / Jones and O ' Kelly movements participated.

Their claim is that leftists in India are not truly secular since they appease minority communities ( such as Muslims or Christians in India ) at the expense of the interests of the Hindu community, and often at odds with modern ideas of secularism.