Catholicism is the dominant religion in Italy, making up 74% of the population. Approximately 12% of the population identifies as irreligious, and this number increases annually. Though a majority of the country identifies as Christian, Italy, along with Spain, has increasingly become known as a graveyard for Protestant missionaries, as numbers of Evangelical Christians have dwindled to less than 0.3%. More Protestant churches close annually in Italy than any other religiously affiliated group. Other religions in Italy include Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism, the latter of which predates Christianity in Italy. The population of non-Catholic Christians in Italy is about 9.3%. The largest denominations are Jehovah’s Witnesses and Eastern Orthodoxy, while smaller groups include Evangelicals, Protestants, and Latter Day Saints. After their removal in the early 1300s, Muslim communities all but disappeared in Italy until immigration brought a revival of Islam in Italy beginning in the 20th century. Approximately 3.7% of Italians identify as Muslim. Islam was present in Italy during the Middle Ages, though it disappeared until the 20th century; Islam is not currently recognized as an official religion, though 3.7% of Italians are Muslim.

Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Many are immigrants from Albania and Morocco, though Muslim immigrants to Italy also come from all over Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe. During the early Middle Ages, the Arabs conquered Mediterranean territories across northern Europe, Spain, and into Sicily and southern Italy. Some neopagan movements, especially in Europe, have adopted ethnic religion as their preferred term, aligning themselves with ethnology. The Gosselins have meals catered on shooting days but otherwise, Kate cooks from scratch, organically. The government of Thailand officially recognizes nine Chao Khao, or indigenous groups, that hold most animistic beliefs, although many of the religious practices of these groups have adopted elements of Christianity, Taoism, and Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism is most closely associated with practices in China and Vietnam rather than India. The path toward Nirvana should be a shared experience, according to Mahayana doctrine.

If the time circle ever rotated in its reverse way of rotational motion path through displacements, then we could capture the past time periods. In the United States, in particular, church attendance has remained relatively stable in the past 40 years. Though less than 1% of Thais are practicing Hindus, Hinduism arrived in Thailand as early as two millennia ago and has remained a significant presence ever since. Though the continent was in turmoil, Italy remained the European stronghold of Catholicism. Only a handful of mosques are recognized by the Italian government as religious spaces, though well over 800 unofficial mosques, known as garage mosques, are currently operating in Italy. The Catholic Church maintains a special relationship with the Italian government, as listed in the constitution, though the government maintains that the entities are separate. The pope is the head of Vatican City and the Bishop of Rome, highlighting the special relationship between the Catholic Church and the Holy See. Though the constitution of Italy guarantees the right of religious freedom, a majority of Italians are Catholics and the government still maintains a special relationship with the Holy See. Christianity has been present in Italy for at least 2000 years, predated by forms of animism and polytheism similar to that of Greece.

In recent years, the population of Protestant Christians has grown rapidly and dramatically as a result of increased missionary work, especially in rural communities. Just under 5% of the population of Thailand practice Islam, and of that 5%, a majority identify as Sunni. Sectarian tensions are mounting in Iraq as the newly ascendant Shia majority struggles to accommodate the Sunni minority and deal with the Kurdish Regional Government in the north of the country while confronting extremist Sunni groups. While it holds significant spiritual value, it is not confined to any one tradition. Mahayana Buddhism differs from Theravada Buddhism in that the spiritual focus is less academic and less solitary. This numerical sequence encourages you to embrace your role as a conduit for positive change, whether through energy healing, spiritual counseling, or the facilitation of personal growth and transformation in others. The current head of the Catholic Church is the Argentinian-born Pope Francis who takes his papal namesake from St. Francis of Assisi, one of the two patron saints of Italy. Additionally, in the most heavily populated areas of Thailand, including Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and Phuket, there are congregated populations of Sikhs, who are often mistaken, especially by westerners as Muslims because of the head turban, or dastar, worn by Sikh men.