Back المسيحية في باكستان Arabic Christentum in Pakistan German Cristianismo en Pakistán Spanish Kristinusko Pakistanissa Finnish Christianisme au Pakistan French Kekristenan di Pakistan ID Cristianesimo in Pakistan Italian 파키스탄의 기독교 Korean Chrześcijaństwo w Pakistanie Polish Христианство в Пакистане Russian
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 Interior of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3.3 million 1.37% 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 and the second largest Abrahamic religion (after Islam) there,[2][3] making up about 1.37% of the population according to the 2023 Census.[4][2] 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.[5][6][7][8]
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.[9][10]
- ^ "2023 Census Table 9: Religious, Sex, Rural, and Urban Populations" (PDF).
- ^ a b Riazul Haq and Shahbaz Rana (27 May 2018). "Headcount finalised sans third-party audit". Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Why are Pakistan's Christians targeted?". BBC News. October 30, 2018.
- ^ "Pakistan Population By Religion, 2023 Census" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ "By Location". Adherents.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "The Constitution of Pakistan, Notes for Part III, Chapter 3". Pakistani.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
- ^ Ghani, Faras (14 Dec 2015). "Islamabad's Christian slums face demolition". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ Telushkin, Shira (31 March 2018). "The Americanization of an Ancient Faith". The Atlantic. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ^ 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.
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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.