Christianity
Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, with the Protestant Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) comprising 29.9% as of 31 December 2008 (down 0.3% compared to the 30.2% in the year before) of the population and Roman Catholicism comprising 30.7% as of Dec. 2008 (also down 0.3% compared to the year before). Consequently a majority of the German people belong to a Christian community, although many of them take no active part in church life. About 1.7% of the population is Orthodox Christian.
Independent and congregational churches exist in all larger towns and many smaller ones, but most such churches are small. One of these is the confessional Lutheran Church called Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Germany.
- Christians 52 million (approximately 62%)
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