Christians in Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

is a minority religion. Accounts of the exact number of Christians

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

 vary as no nationwide statistic

Statistic

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s have even been released. As of 2005, the United States

United States

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 Department of State reports that approximately 24,000 Christians live in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar

Ulan Bator or Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. An independent municipality, the city is not part of any province, and its population as of 2008 is over one million....

, which is around 2.5 percent of the entire registered population of the city. With the end of Mongolia's communist regime in 1990, numbers of Christian followers have steadily increased again.

Foreign Christian missionary groups have returned to Mongolia, including Roman Catholics

Roman Catholic Church

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, Lutherans

Lutheranism

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, Russian Orthodox, Presbyterians

Presbyterianism

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, Seventh-day Adventists, various evangelical

Evangelism

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 Protestant groups, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses

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