In 1800 there were 250,000 baptized Roman Catholics, but no known Protestant believers out of an estimated 362 million Chinese.
Sometimes the entire family is threatened with ostracism even though only one member is a Protestant believer.
Protestant believers are known as "evangelicos."
The percentage of Protestant believers stood at 4.1%, 25.8% belonged to any religious community.
Participation in religious activities throughout the country continued to grow, and Protestant believers in the Central Highlands continued to report significant improvements in their situation.
In his lengthy will, one sees both a wealthy aristocrat and a penitent Protestant believer.
It removed most restrictions on non-Catholic worship and enabled both Protestant and Orthodox believers to be eligible for service in government offices.
The almost complete disappearance of these paintings is due to the fact that the church became the property of Protestant believers in 1557.
By some estimates, the growth of Protestant believers in Vietnam has been as much as 600 percent over the past ten years.
VOC policy to ban Catholicism significantly increased the percentage of Protestant believers in Indonesia.