Background of Orthodox Mission in India
India is the world’s largest democracy with an estimated population in 2011 of 1,194,134,000 & growing (by compari-son the population of the USA is 308,745,538). It does not have an estab lished state religion, but the following are the religious statistics for the year 2001:
Religious group
Population%
Growth (1991–2001)
Hindu
80.46%
20.3%
Muslim
13.43%
36.0%
Christian
2.34%
22.6%
Sikh
1.87%
18.2%
Buddhist
0.77%
18.2%
Jain
0.41%
26.0%
Animist, others
0.65%
103.1%
Christianity has deep roots [...]
