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The religion most prevalent in Italy is the Christianity present since the time of the apostles. The predominant religion is Catholicism. The Christians ( Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, etc.) in Italy represent the religion of the majority. As in many Western countries, the process of secularization is growing, especially among young people, but not require the presence of Catholic movements such as Catholic Action, the Franciscan Youth, the AGESCI, Communion and Liberation and the Neocatechumenal Way that try to reverse or mitigate this process.
The oldest religion present in Italy is Judaism, which has an uninterrupted presence in Rome before the arrival of Christianity. The Jewish community in Italy has about 45,000 individuals.
Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century Italy diffuse into other movements, including Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. Are about 110,000 Buddhists, Hindus while some 75,000 Sikhs revolve around 70,000 people. The faithful of the first two religions are grouped in the Italian Buddhist Union and the Italian Hindu Union officially recognized by the Italian State. Modern paganism is present in particular in the form Wiccan, Roman, Odinist and druidista. One of the most influential Italian groups following the Roman Neopaganism is Traditional Italian Movement. Among the groups Odinists follow Neopaganismo is the most important, however, the Odinists Community.
The religion most prevalent in Italy is the Christianity present since apostolic times. The confession Christian majority is Catholicism. However, there are several other Christian denominations: the faithful Orthodox are almost 1.3 million, mostly recent immigrants. With regard to statistics on religions present in Italy there is a problem of calculation due to the fact that the numbers of believers are often developed on the basis of officialdom accession to the various religions through rituals such as for example the baptism. This method does not take into account, however, of those who leave any kind of faith and those who openly professes the ' atheism that counts in the country, according to some estimates, at least 9 million people.
As in many Western countries, the process of secularization is growing, especially among young people, even if they lack the presence of Catholic movements ( Catholic Action, the Franciscan Youth, AGESCI, Communion and Liberation, the Neocatechumenal Way, the Focolare Movement, etc) and lay communities in which Catholics wish to live their religion with a particular life experience ( the Community of Sant'Egidio, Nomadelfia, Pro Civitate Christiana, etc), sometimes difficult relations with the religious hierarchies evident in the history of the many basic Christian Communities in Italy.
The oldest religion in Italy is the ' Judaism, of which Rome is reported a continued presence since the days before the onset of Christianity. The Jewish community in Italy is around 30,000 people (0.05% of the total). During the nineteenth and twentieth century have spread to other Italian religious movements, particularly Sikhism, partly because of strong immigration. The Sikhs hovering around 950,000 units. Sikhism is a monotheistic religion, like Christianity.
Catholicism is a term that refers to the character of the faith professed by the Christian faithful of the Catholic Church, as well as the theology, doctrine, liturgy, ethical principles and standards of behavior derived, like the whole of his followers as a whole, who are called "Catholics". The word 'Catholic' is generally used to allude to the religious experience shared by people live in communion with the Church of Rome.
Catholic dogmas are the core beliefs that identify and define the Catholic faith against other Christian denominations, although some of these beliefs are common to other Christian denominations (eg Encarnación, Trinidad ). For a Catholic dogma is a truth revealed by God and proposed by the Church for the indubitable belief of the faithful.
There Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome who, having traditions liturgical different, do not add the term "Roman". Therefore, to encompass the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, the term is used more generally Catholic Church, as it is in the article title. The Catholic Church has the head bishop of Rome, the Pope, receiving the honorary treatment of "His Holiness". According to Catholic dogma, August was the first pope Peter. The current Pope is the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who chose the pontifical name Francisco.
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