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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3.3 million 1.37% of the Pakistani Population[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Especially in Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory | |
| Languages | |
Christianity is the third largest religion in Pakistan and the second largest Abrahamic religion (after Islam) there,[2][3] making up about 1.37% of the population according to the 2023 Census.[4][2] Of these, approximately half are Catholic and half Protestant (primarily Anglican and Presbyterian). A small number of Eastern Orthodox Christians, and Oriental Orthodox Christians also live in Pakistan.[5][6][7][8]
Around 75 percent of Pakistan's Christians are rural Punjabi Christians, while some speak Sindhi and Gujarati, with the remainder being the upper and middle class Goan Christians and Anglo-Indians.[9][10]
- ^ "2023 Census Table 9: Religious, Sex, Rural, and Urban Populations" (PDF).
- ^ a b Riazul Haq and Shahbaz Rana (27 May 2018). "Headcount finalised sans third-party audit". Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Why are Pakistan's Christians targeted?". BBC News. October 30, 2018.
- ^ "Pakistan Population By Religion, 2023 Census" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "The Constitution of Pakistan, Notes for Part III, Chapter 3". Pakistani.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
- ^ Ghani, Faras (14 Dec 2015). "Islamabad's Christian slums face demolition". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
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At [Pakistan's] inception in 1947, Pakistani Christians could be divided in three categories. a) Punjabi rural working-class Anglicans, (b) Catholic urban middle-class Goans in Karachi, and c) White Anglo-Indians who lived in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Quetta and this included both Irish Catholic and English Protestants.