What is Germany’s religion and other belief systems?
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html
Protestants (concentrated in the north and east) and Roman Catholics (concentrated in the south and west) each comprise about 31% of the population. The current Pope, Benedict XVI, was born in Bavaria. In total, more than 55 million people officially belong to a Christian denomination. Non-religious people, including atheists and agnostics amount to 28.5% of the population, and are especially numerous in the former East Germany. About three million Muslims live in Germany. Most are Sunnis and Alevites from Turkey, but there are a small number of Shiites. Germany has Western Europe’s third-largest Jewish population. In 2004, twice as many Jews from former Soviet republics settled in Germany as in Israel, bringing the total Jewish population to more than 200,000, compared to 30,000 prior to German reunification. Large cities with significant Jewish populations include Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. According to the Deutsche Buddhistische Union (German Buddhist Union), an umbrella organisation of the Buddhist groups in Germany, there are about 250,000 active Buddhists in Germany; 50% of them are immigrated Asians.
CIA WORLD FACT BOOK 2007
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html
…………..Germany
………….Roman Catholicism………..
…………..Protestantism……………
.Postwar Christianity
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism
Free Churches
Orthodox Churches
Judaism
Islam
http://countrystudies.us/germany/94.htm
Martin Luther challenged papal authority and what he saw as the commercialization of his faith. In the process, Luther changed the course of European and world history and established the second major faith in Germany–Protestantism.