The first member of the Bah Faith in Yugoslavia was an isolated Bah in Belgrade who converted to the religion in 1963. After the 1878 Congress of Berlin, Bosnia and Herzegovina came under the control of Austria-Hungary. Just remember the following: Bosniaks are Muslims. [231], According to the Pew Research Center, Christianity is declining in the United States while non-Christian faiths are growing. [309] Many converts to Islam said that they suffered from hostility from their families after converting. The Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the oldest Church in Bosnia that survived. [65][67] Much of the growth has occurred after World War II, when decolonization of Africa and abolition of various restrictions against Protestants in Latin American countries occurred. As he noted only 5% of Americans said none in 1972. As per the Pew Research study, Muslim populations will grow in absolute number in all regions of the world between 2010 and 2050. The map above shows which religion is the fastest growing in each country around the world based on data from Pew Research Center's The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050. This would be the one-third of world's total projected population from almost nine billion people. [26], The American Religious Identification Survey gave nonreligious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers: 14.3 million (8.4% of the population) to 29.4 million (14.1% of the population) for the period 19902001 in the U.S.[452][453] A 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports, "The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. Christianity is expected to have the largest net loss of followers between 2010 and 2050 in North America (-28 million), Europe (-24 million), Latin America and the Caribbean (-9.5 million), sub-Saharan Africa (-3 million), and Asia-Pacific (2.4 million). But this could change if the current demographic trends continue, according to research published by the US-based Pew Research Center. [321] Globally, Muslims were younger (median age of 23) than the overall population (median age of 28) as of 2010. On why the global Muslim population is growing so rapidly. [66], The significant growth of Christianity in non-Western countries led to regional distribution changes of Christians. [119] Khalil Bilici, while admitting that the limitations of their 2007 study database are too small, found a good number of Middle Eastern people are likely to convert to Christianity after leaving Islam. A Pew Research poll predicts that, based on current trends, the number of Muslims worldwide will be nearly equal to the number of Christians by 2050. Islam. Although the citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina is known as a Bosnian, in the country there is a distinction between a Herzegovinian and a Bosnian and is often maintained a regional but not an ethnic identity. [29] By 2003 Bahs had organized Bosnia and Herzegovina into 17 subregions, and four of these contained at least one Bah and a few Ruhi Institute study circles were operating. [203] According to Guinness, approximately 12.5 million more people who converted to Islam than people who converted to Christianity between 1990 and 2000. [39] According to scholar Mark Juergensmeyer of University of California, Berkeley, the global Christian population increased at an average annual rate of 2.3%, while Roman Catholicism is growing by 1.3% annually, Protestantism is growing by 3.3% annually, and Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism is growing by 7% annually. [241], According to study published by the missionary statistician[242] and professor David B. Barrett of Columbia University,[243][244] and professor of global Christianity, historian George Thomas Kurian,[245] and both are work on World Christian Encyclopedia, approximately 2.7million converting to Christianity annually from another religion, World Christian Encyclopedia also cited that Christianity ranks at first place in net gains through religious conversion. Support by SubscribeRelated TitlesReligion in AlbaniaReligion in Albania 1900 - 2100Religion in Albania 2021Islam in Albania 2021Muslim Population in Albania. They have a median age of 24. Islam is growing faster than any other religion, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. [507][508][509], The number of Kurdish Zoroastrians, along with those of non-ethnic converts, has been estimated differently. Serbs are Orthodox Christians. Religious leaders also used their position to influence the election outcome by encouraging their communities to vote for certain individuals or parties. [121][122][123][129][130][131][132], Christians of Muslim background communities can be found in Afghanistan,[133][134] Albania,[135][136][137][138][139][140] Algeria,[141][142][143][144][145] Argentina,[146] Australia,[126] Austria,[147][148] Azerbijan,[149][150] Bangladesh,[151][152] Belgium,[126] Bosnia and Herzegovina,[126] Bulgaria,[153] Canada,[126] Denmark,[154][155] Egypt,[126] Ethiopia,[126] Finland,[156][157] France,[126][158] Georgia (Abkhazia),[159] Germany,[160] Greece,[161][162] India (kashmir),[163] Iran,[164][165][166][167][168][169] Iraq,[170] Kazakhstan,[171] Kosovo,[172][173] Kyrgyzstan,[174][175] Lebanon,[176] Malaysia,[177] Morocco,[178][179][180][181][182] the Netherlands,[183][155] Nigeria,[126] Russia,[126] Saudi Arabia,[126] Singapore,[184] Sweden,[185][186] Syria,[187] Tanzania,[126] Tajikistan,[188] Tunisia,[189][190] Turkey,[191][192][193][194] United Kingdom,[195][196] the United States,[197][198] Uzbekistan,[199] and other countries. Intermarriage between different ethnic groups was common before 1990, but extremist politics that was associated with Milosevic stirred distrust which led to ethnic cleansing which left millions dead or homeless. [341] Islam is widely considered as the fastest growing religion in Europe due primarily to immigration and above average birth rates. : Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious. [504] A slower birthrate than deathrate accounts for the rest: as of 2001, Parsis over the age of 60 make up for 31% of the community. [73] Christianity is still the largest religion in Central and Eastern Europe, according to a 2017 study by the Pew Research Center, the share of adults who identify themselves as Eastern Orthodox in Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria has been significantly increased between 1991 and 2015. Religious leaders from the three major faiths claim that observance is increasing among younger persons as an expression of increased identification with their ethnic heritage, in large part due to the national religious revival that occurred as a result of the Bosnian war. Islam isnt fastest growing religion, its fastest breeding religion. They even pray cows, monkeys,tress imagine that as a rational human being. Islam began in Arabia and from 633 AD until the late 10th century it was spread through conquests, far-reaching trade and missionary activity. The fastest growing religion in the world is. When Asim Hamza was growing up in communist Albania in the 1980s, it was the third poorest country in the world. [61] The Vatican's 2008 yearbook of statistics revealed that for the first time, Islam has outnumbered the Roman Catholics globally. [103] On the other hand, Eric Kaufman, of University of London, argued that the main reason for the expansion of Catholicism and conservative Protestantism along with other religions is because their religions tend to be "pro-natal" and they have more children, and not due to religious conversion.[104]. 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia however the report also includes the descendants of those who converted in Indonesia as well. [96][97][98], In 1900, there were only 8.7million[48] adherents of Christianity in Africa, while in 2010 there were 390 million. [360] By 2050 Asia will be home to (52.8%) of the world's Muslims, and about (24.3%) of the world's Muslims will live in Sub Saharan Africa, (20%) the Middle East and North Africa, and 2% in Europe. The Muslim population in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to reach nearly 1.5billion by 2050, up from roughly 1billion in 2010. Due largely to high fertility, sub-Saharan Africa is projected to experience the fastest overall growth, rising from 12% of the world's population in 2010 to about 20% in 2050. The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion's longstanding presence in other nearby countries. Locally observed holy days include Orthodox Easter and Christmas in the RS, Catholic Easter and Christmas in Herzegovina, and Kurban Bajram and Ramadan Bajram in Sarajevo and central Bosnia. [464] Within India, a majority of Sikhs live in the state of Punjab. [322] While decline of Muslim birth rates in coming years have also been well documented. [53] Christians have 2.7 children per woman, which is above replacement level (2.1). Thus, this report excludes religious conversion as a direct factor from the projection of Muslim population growth. The lines dividing politics, ethnic identity, and religion were often blurred, particularly during the period prior to the 2006 national elections and during the public debate over proposed changes to the Bosnian Constitution. Muslims are likely to make up more than fifty . Pew research shows that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. Well, check the verse above from Umdat al-Salik, a manual of Islamic jurisprudence certified by Al-Azhar University in Cairo (the most respected authority in Sunni Islam) as conforming "to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni . [26] According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, over the next four decades the number of Jews around the world is expected to increase from 14.2 million in 2015 to 16.3 million in 2060. Religious preferences essentially determine their culture, identity and traditions. [104] Doug Saunders states that by 2030 Muslims and Non-Muslims birth rates will be equal in Germany, Greece, Spain and Denmark without taking account of the Muslims immigration to these countries. During the period covered by this report, the entity, cantonal, and municipal governments gave varying levels of financial support to the four traditional religious communities - Muslim, Serbian Orthodox, Catholic, and Jewish. Grey = No Change. According to statistics in Canada, the number of "Nones" increased by about 60% between 1985 and 2004. Historically, Bosnian Muslims had always practiced a form of Islam that is strongly influenced by Sufism. Wrong data. For example, individuals can receive a capital punishment if they openly leave Islam in some Muslim countries. . Some religious leaders became increasingly political and vocal in this period and used religious sermons and services for political campaign purposes. Some of these centers have both primary and secondary schools, and although the principals are priests, the majority of teachers are not religious officials. the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. And Muslims have more children than people in . [452][453] According to Anne Elizabeth Wynn of The Statesman, "The two most recent American Religious Identification Surveys declare Wicca, one form of paganism, as the fastest growing spiritual identification in America". Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Although some national censuses ask people about their religion, they do not ask if they have converted to their presently espoused faith. According to the law, any group of 300 adult citizens may apply to form a new church or religious community with a written application to the Ministry of Justice.