Jesus' apostles and their followers spread around the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Ancient Carthage, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite significant initial persecution. Ĭhristianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century Hellenistic Judaism in the Roman province of Judea. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories, and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, whose coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers representing one-third of the global population. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
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