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Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [ 10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Philippines. United States. Italy. The country where the membership of the church is the largest percentage of the population is Vatican City at 100%, followed by East Timor at 97%. According to the Census of the 2023 Annuario Pontificio (Pontifical Yearbook), the number of baptized Catholics in the world was about 1.376 billion at the end of ...
I. Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [ 21][ 22][ 23] India [ 24] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [ 25] and the cities of Syracuse [ 26] and Rome specifically [ 27]) Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [ 28]
The Douay–Rheims Bible (/ ˌ d uː eɪ ˈ r iː m z, ˌ d aʊ eɪ-/, [1] US also / d uː ˌ eɪ-/), also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church. [2]
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a Jehovah's Witness convention at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. [ 34][ 35] The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960.
[7] Today, the version of the Bible that is used in official documents in Latin is the Nova Vulgata, a revision of the Vulgate. [8] The original Bible text is, according to Catholics, "written by the inspired author himself and has more authority and greater weight than any, even the very best, translation whether ancient or modern". [9]
The World English Bible ( WEB) is an English translation of the Bible freely shared online. [ 5] The translation work began in 1994 [ 4] and was deemed complete in 2020. [ 2] Created by Michael Paul Johnson with help from volunteers, [ 1][ 6] the WEB is an updated revision of the American Standard Version from 1901. [ 4]
Three Days of Darkness. The Three Days of Darkness is an eschatological concept regarding future events, held by some Catholics to be true. [ 1] The prophecy foretells three days and nights of "an intense darkness" [ 2] over the whole earth, against which the only light will come from blessed beeswax candles, and during which "all the enemies ...