Christianity in Pakistan

Pakistani Christians
Total population
2.63 million
1.27% of the Pakistani Population[1]
Regions with significant populations
Especially in Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory
Languages

Christianity is the third largest religion in Pakistan,[1][2] making up about 1.27% of the population according to the 2017 Census.[3][1] Of these, approximately half are Catholic and half Protestant (primarily Anglican and Presbyterian). A small number of Eastern Orthodox Christians, and Oriental Orthodox Christians also live in Pakistan.[4][5][6][7]

Around 75 percent of Pakistan's Christians are rural Punjabi Christians, while some speak Sindhi and Gujarati, with the remainder being the upper and middle class Goan Christians and Anglo-Indians.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b c Riazul Haq and Shahbaz Rana (27 May 2018). "Headcount finalised sans third-party audit". Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Why are Pakistan's Christians targeted?". BBC News. October 30, 2018.
  3. ^ "Salient Features of Final Results: Census 2017" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-24. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  4. ^ "By Location". Adherents.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2013-02-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "The Constitution of Pakistan, Notes for Part III, Chapter 3". Pakistani.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
  6. ^ Ghani, Faras (14 Dec 2015). "Islamabad's Christian slums face demolition". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  7. ^ Telushkin, Shira (31 March 2018). "The Americanization of an Ancient Faith". The Atlantic. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
  8. ^ Jacobsen, Douglas (21 March 2011). The World's Christians: Who they are, Where they are, and How they got there. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 112–. ISBN 978-1-4443-9729-1.
  9. ^ Coren, Michael (21 October 2014). Hatred. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-2385-9. At [Pakistan's] inception in 1947, Pakistani Christians could be divided in three categories. a) Punjabi rural working-class Anglicans, (b) Catholic urban middle-class Goans in Karachi, and c) White Anglo-Indians who lived in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Quetta and this included both Irish Catholic and English Protestants.

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