Five Major Religions

Today in class we learned about the five major religions. They are Christianity, Islamic, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. The first one I'll talk is Christianity and number of adherents: around 2.2 billion (largest in the world), you call them: Christians, their geographic location: Europe, the Americas, southern Africa. The next one is Islam, the number of adherents: 1.5 billion (second largest), you

call them: Muslims, their geographic location: Indonesia, Middle East, north Africa. The next one I'll talk about is Hinduism the number of adherents: 1.1 billion (third largest), you call them: Hindus, their geographic location: India, Nepal. Next is Buddhism, the number of adherents: 500 mill. to 1.5 billion, you call them: Buddhists, their geographic location: southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan, (there are 1.2 million Buddhists in the United States). The last one is Judaism, the number of adherents: 14 - 18 million (ninth), you call them: Jews, their geographic location: Israel (6.4 million, 75.4%) and US (5.3 - 7 million, 1.7% - 2.6%).