1. By: Weronika Domagała

2. Christianity - monotheistic religion of revelation, based on the teachings of Jesus
Christ. Its followers recognize in him the promised Messiah and Saviour, who
established the Kingdom of God by his resurrection. The canon of the Christian
faith has been written in the New Testament, and shall be forwarded by the
churches. According to Acts In Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
With time, the faithful began to express individuality. The first recorded use of the
term Christianity was found in the Letter to the Corinthians.
Christianity was originally symbolised by the fish, then it a cross became a symbol.
The name was established by joining the first two letters of the Greek word
Christos and the crucifixion of Jesus.

3. According to the Christian faith, God revealed himself to the humanity in the history of
Israel and the Church. This process reached its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Along with
the Jews, Christians confess that God is one and that He is the Creator of the visible
and the invisible (the spiritual) worlds. Man is the crown jewel in the level of His
creation, the image of Himself, revealing the mind of the Creator. Part of the Christian
religion is the belief that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, but God is in three
persons - Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. The most important belief in this religion is
that through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has brought salvation
to the world.

4. Historically, during the first six centuries of the
existance of this faith the Christianity was spread
orally. The Christianity members understood their
faith as the community which members share the
same beliefs, and treated themselves as a Church
which had the same values such as: unity, holiness,
catholicy (universality) and apostolicity. The main
dogmatic truths about the mystery of Christ and the
Persons of the Holy Trinity were defined in the first
four Ecumenical Councils – in Nicea (325),
Constantinople (381), Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon
(451).

5. Christianity is now the most numerous religion in the world.
It is now professed by about 33% of the world population.
Among the nearly 2.5 billion Christians we distinguish among(as of 2011):
 approximately 1.16 billion Catholics
 approximately 1.04 billion Protestants (approximately 612 million charismatic, approximately 426
million classic)
approximately 271 million Orthodox
 about 87 million Anglicans,
about 35 million Christians who belong to other denominations.
To the last position we also include various sects of Christian origin.
The Christianity predominates the religious structure of Europe, both Americas and
Australia, in Africa only around 38% of the population is Catholic, in Asia catholics are
in the minority.
Today, there are already 42 thousand churches and ecclesial communities.

6. The Christianity is divided into three main branches:
Catholicism – including the Roman Catholic Church with the Latin, Greek-Catholic and other Eastern
rites, old catholic creeds, including Mariavitism and traditionalist and liberal mainstreams
Eastern Churches - which include the Orthodox and Oriental and the Assyrian churches
Protestantism - a series of confessions derived from the sixteenth-century Reformation among which
evangelical churches such as Lutheranism, Calvinism and Presbyterianism, Methodism are distinguished,
evangelical religion, also called revival, such as Baptist,
In addition, two other trends are often distinguished:
Anglicanism and Episcopal religion;
Oriental Churches include: Oriental Orthodox churches and Assyrian churches.
Thus, according to this classification there are five mainstreams in Christianity. Another separate
category is the Unitarianism – it negate the knowledge about the Holy Trinity.

7. Today, in many countries there is a persecution of
Christians because of their faith. According to the report
of the Aid of the Church in Need christians are
discriminated in more than 70 countries around the world.
According to this study, persecutions affect approximately
200 million people, and more than 170 thousand people
are killed each year. The most difficult conditions for the
christians are in the countries such as Afghanistan, China,
North Korea, Mjanmar, Pakistan, Nigeria, Sudan, Vietnam
and Zimbabwe. Representatives of the Aid to the Church
in Need said that Christianity is the most persecuted
religion in the world today.

8. The basic vision of a Christian woman, her
role in the family, in society and in the
Church, emphasizes her equality with man
in the relation to human dignity. At the
same time it points out the obvious fact that
both sexes are not identical. Differences
make the possibility of mutual
complementarity.

10. Confirmation
Baptism
Holy Communion