<P> According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910 . By 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion . According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the world's largest religion in 2050, if current trends continue . </P> <P> Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% live in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% live in the Middle East and North Africa . About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the world's Christians . Other Christian groups make up the remainder . Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories . 280 million Christians live as a minority . </P> <P> The Greek word Χριστιανός (Christianos), meaning "follower of Christ", comes from Χριστός (Christos), meaning "anointed one", with an adjectival ending borrowed from Latin to denote adhering to, or even belonging to, as in slave ownership . In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning "(one who is) anointed ." In other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish . </P> <P> The first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11: 26, after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says: "(...) the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch ." The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26: 28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian ." The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4: 16, which exhorts believers: "Yet if (any man suffer) as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf ." </P>

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