The remaining 95 % are Christians, so divided: 78 % of the Eritrean Orthodox faith, 12 % Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic ( whose mass is held in Ge ' ez as opposed to Latin ), and 5 % belonging to various Protestant and other Christian denominations, the majority of which belong to the ( Lutheran ) Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

A majority of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews believe that the Hebrew calendar dates back to the time of creation ; the year 2009-2010 ( the Hebrew New Year begins during September or October ) of the Gregorian calendar corresponds to the Hebrew year 5770.

The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syrian Orthodox, as well as Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims.

He wrote that " the majority of the inhabitants of Southern Serbia are Orthodox Christian Macedonians, ethnologically more akin to the Bulgarians than to the Serbs.

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.

Because of bad relations between the latter Byzantine Empire and the states of western Europe as epitomized by Loukas Notaras's famous remark " Better the Sultan's turban than the Cardinal's Hat ", the majority of the Orthodox population accepted Ottoman rule as preferable to Venetian rule.

In the United States, there are numerous Orthodox congregational organizations, such as Agudath Israel, the Orthodox Union, and the National Council of Young Israel ; none of which can claim to represent a majority of all Orthodox congregations.

For guidance in practical application of Jewish law, the majority of Orthodox Jews appeal to the Shulchan Aruch (" Code of Jewish Law " composed in the 16th century by Rabbi Joseph Caro ) together with its surrounding commentaries.

The majority, including the Eastern Orthodox, allow an exception for John the Baptist as a prophet contemporary with Jesus.

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not religious, believe that the Torah was given to Moses at Sinai.

Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Roman Catholics, who together constitute the majority of Christians, hold that the consecrated elements in a valid celebration of the Eucharist indeed become the body and blood of Christ.

The vast majority of Orthodox ethnic Macedonians view the Serbian Orthodox Church as hostile to Macedonian history, national interests, and self-determination.

Several Lithuanian monarchs — the last being Švitrigaila in 1432 – 36 — relied on the Eastern Orthodox Ruthenian majority, while most monarchs and magnates increasingly came to reflect the opinions of the Roman Catholics.

In both Orthodox Judaism and non-Orthodox Judaism, the majority view holds that organ donation is permitted in the case of irreversible cardiac rhythm cessation.

Even if today the majority of Corfiots are Greek Orthodox ( following the official religion of Greece ), a percentage of Catholics ( 5 %) nevertheless owe their faith to these origins.

The vast majority of Orthodox Jews do not recognize ordination from UTJ.

The majority of the Armenian, Syrian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Christians rejected the Chalcedonian definition, and are now known collectively as the Oriental Orthodox churches.

The Bosniaks, whose ethnonym initially referred to Slavic Christians ( Orthodox, Catholic and Bogomils ) which co-existed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages, are today majority Muslim, since the Ottoman occupation.

Alongside the atheist majority of 60 % there were sizable minorities of Russian Orthodox followers ( approx.

It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The central dispute in the letter concerns the question of how Gentiles could convert to Christianity, which shows that this letter was written at a very early stage in church history, when the vast majority of Christians were Jewish or Jewish proselytes, which historians refer to as the Jewish Christians.

However, the majority of modern scholars view them as Jewish Christians, who taught that in order for pagans to belong to the people of God, they must be subject to some or all of the Jewish Law, ( i. e. Judaizers ).

The majority of people left in the Christian church at Rome would have been Gentile Christians.

This Gospel is considered by the majority of academics, including Christians and some Muslims ( such as Abbas el-Akkad ) to be late and pseudepigraphical ; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work ( perhaps Gnostic, Ebionite or Diatessaronic ), redacted to bring it more in line with Islamic doctrine.

A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.

For the majority of Christians, the belief in the Holy Trinity implies the existence of three distinct Holy Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit being One Eternal Triune God.

For the majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit ( prior English language usage: the Holy Ghost from Old English gast, “ spirit ”) is the third person of the Holy Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and is Almighty God.

Christians form the majority, with 63 % of the population ; Muslims are 32 % of the population ; 5 % are affiliated with other religions.

Although the vast majority of the members are Muslim, about 5 percent of the seats are reserved for minorities, including Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs.

Today, the majority of Palestinian Christians live outside of the former Mandate Palestine because of emigration in response to the 1948 War, and the Six-Day War in 1967, occupation by Jordan, Egypt, and most recently Israel, with 78 % of Christians blaming the ongoing exodus of Christians from Bethlehem on the Israeli occupation and travel restrictions on the area ..

Today, the majority of Palestinian Christians live abroad.

In Christianity, resurrection most critically concerns the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also includes the resurrection of Judgment Day known as the Resurrection of the Dead by those Christians who subscribe to the Nicene Creed ( which is the majority or Mainstream Christianity ), as well as the resurrection miracles done by Jesus and the prophets of the Old Testament.

Sidon is a conservative city with a Sunni Muslim majority: Sunnis make up approximately ( 80 %) of the local population, Shiites and Christians combined make up ( 20 %).

Author David Goetz claimed that the majority of Christians denounced evolution at the time.

One thousand years ago Christians were the majority population in today's Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt.

In Sami Hadawi's 1945 survey, the population stood at 5, 080, with Christians forming the majority of the population.

The majority of the losses, excluding POWs, being ethnic Russians ( 5, 756, 000 ), followed by ethnic Ukrainians ( 1, 377, 400 ).

Russians on fixed incomes ( the vast majority of the workforce ) saw their purchasing power drastically reduced, so while the stores might have been well stocked in the Yeltsin era, workers could now afford to buy little, if anything.

Even so, ethnic Russians still formed the majority of NKVD victims.

Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians make up the majority of the population ; the city on its own has more inhabitants than the entire neighboring Chukotka Autonomous Okrug or Magadan Oblast.

Russia's casualties in this war were the highest of all nations, and numbered more than 20 million dead ( Russians composed 80 % of the 26. 6 million people lost by the USSR ), which is about half of all World War II casualties and the vast majority of Allied casualties.

A series of follow-up battles destroyed the majority of the First Army as well, and kept the Russians off-balance until the spring of 1915.

Ethnic Russians and Ukrainians make up the majority of the population.

Though the majority of Russians had Slavic ancestry, different ethnicities were assimilated into the Russian melting pot through the period of expansion.

At the first census after liberation from Ottoman rule in 1884, from population of 33, 442 inhabitants the majority were 16, 752 Bulgarians ( 50 %), followed by 7, 144 Turks ( 21 %), 5, 497 Greeks ( 16 %), 2, 168 Jews ( 6 %), 1, 061 Armenians ( 3 %), 151 Italians, 112 Germans, 112 Roma, 80 Frenchs, 61 Russians and 304 people of other nationalities.

The majority of Trakai's inhabitants ( 61 %) are Lithuanian, although the town also has a substantial Polish minority ( 21 %), as well as Russians.

During this time, many Russians moved to the city, making up the majority share of the population ( 48. 5 % in 2007 ).

By 1989, Russians accounted for the majority of the population, at 53 %.

Furthermore, for the overwhelming majority of Russians he is a political symbol of the 90s, one of the " bad blokes " enriching themselves behind the back of president Yeltsin.

New Priozersk was settled with a totally new population of people ( mainly Russians, Belorussian, Ukrainians ) from the Soviet Union, who remain the majority of the local population.

The majority were lost not because of fighting with the Russians, but to disease.

Ethnic Russians form the majority of the population ( about 85 %), and Russian, rather than any of two co-official Mordvinic languages, is the common language of communication in the city.

As of the 2010 Census, Russians form an overwhelming majority of the population, at 94 %.

) producing ideological backlashes to the near-institutionalized dominance of Avars, Dargins and Russians in Dagestan ( together, Avars, Dargins and Russians form a weak majority of the population, but their dominance is widely resented by others ).

That Russian was the most widely spoken language, and that Russians were the majority of the population of the country, were also cited in justification of the special place of Russian language in government, education, and the media.

Assuming that these trends continued, Russians were likely to lose their status as a majority of the Soviet population around the turn of the 21st century.

This wholly native food remained the staple for the vast majority of Russians well into the 20th century.

The vast majority of the 322, 079 inhabitants are Russians, but there are also about 8, 743 Koryaks ( 2002 ).

Russians nobles were granted land in Ingria and Lutheran Ingrian Finns left Ingria, where they were in minority, for Old Finland, i. e. Russia's 18th century gains north of the Gulf of Finland, where Lutherans were a large majority.