write a paragraph on Christian religion in Gujarati
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Christianity is India's third-largest religion after Hinduism and Islam, with approximately 28 million followers, constituting 2.3 percent of India's population (2011 census).[2] According to Indian tradition, the Christian faith was introduced to India by Thomas the Apostle, who supposedly reached the Malabar Coast (Kerala) in 52 AD.[3][4][5] According to another tradition Bartholomew the Apostle is credited with simultaneously introducing Christianity along the Konkan Coast.[6] There is a general scholarly consensus that Christian communities were firmly established in India by the 6th century AD,[7] including some communities who used Syriac liturgies.
Christians in India
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Total population
27,819,588 (2011)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Majority in Nagaland at 90%, Mizoram at 90% and Meghalaya at 74.59%. Plural majority in Manipur at 41.3% and Arunachal Pradesh at 30.3%. Significant populations in Goa at 25% and Kerala at 18.4%, Tamil Nadu at 6.2%.
Languages
Hindi, English, Bodo, Khasi, Karbi Mizo, Rabha, Mushing, Naga, kuki, Garo, Hmar, Bengali, Nepali, Assamese, Malayalam, Odia, Gujarati, Tamil, Konkani, Kannada, Telugu and various Indian languages
Christianity in India is made up of people from different church denominations. The state of Kerala is home to the Saint Thomas Christian community, an ancient body of Christians who according to tradition trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.[5][8] They are now divided into several different churches and traditions. There are East Syriac Rite denominations: the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Chaldean Syrian Church. There are West Syriac Rite denominations: the Indian Orthodox Church, the Malankara Jacobite Orthodox Syrian Church, the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, and the Malabar Independent Syrian Church. Saint Thomas Anglicans are in the Anglican tradition and are members of the Church of South India (C.S.I.).[9][10][11]
Since the 19th century, Protestant churches have also been present; major denominations include non-conformist reformed churches like Pentecostal, the Baptists, Evangelical, Methodist, the Presbyterian, Mennonites, Lutherans. Ecclesial traditionalist churches like CSI, (ECI), the CNI, Traditional Anglicans and other ecclesial groups of CSI synod have presence. The Christian Church runs thousands of educational institutions and hospitals which have contributed significantly to the development of the nation.[12]
Roman Rite Catholicism was introduced to India by the Portuguese, Italian and Irish Jesuits in the 16th century under the influence of its allied empires. Most Christian schools, hospitals and primary care centres originated through the Roman Catholic missions brought by the trade of these countries. Traditional Anglicanism was introduced by the British missions under British Empire which shares a common ecclesial traditions with Catholicism. Evangelical and reformed Protestantism was later spread to India by the efforts of North American, German, and independent missionaries to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ among Indians, majority of whom suffered militant persecution and were martyred as they did not have background support from mainstream powerful churches. The Protestant missions introduced formal English education in India[13] and produced early translations of the Holy Bible in Indian languages (including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu and others).
Even though Christians are a significant minority, they form a major religious group in three states of India - Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland with plural majority in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and other states with significant Christian population include Coastal Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Kanara, the south shore and North-east India. Christianity in India to a larger extent has been very traditional in its practices and has not witnessed any Indigenous revival and local Church-planting movements in history like their counterparts in the other parts of the world. Moreover, a significant number of Indians profess personal Christian faith outside the domain of traditional and institutionalized Christianity and do not associate with any Church or its conventional code of belief.