Christianity in Taiwan
Christianity in Taiwan constituted 3.9% of the population, according to the census of 2005; Christians on the island included approximately 600,000 Protestants, 300,000 Catholics and a small number of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
(Chinese : 臺灣基督教) | |
|---|---|
Catholic Church of Wanchin | |
| Total population | |
| 6.8% (2021census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Taiwan | |
| Languages | |
| Chinese language（Standard Chinese、Hokkien、Hakka） Formosan languages、Malayo-Polynesian languages（Tao language、Filipino language、Indonesian language） English | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism 、Protestantism、Eastern Orthodoxy、Nontrinitarianism |
Estimates in 2020 suggested that the portion had risen to 4% or 6%.
Due to the small number of practitioners, Christianity has not influenced the island nation's Han Chinese culture in a significant way. A few individual Christians have devoted their lives to charitable work in Taiwan, becoming well known and well liked—for example, George Leslie Mackay (Presbyterian) and Nitobe Inazō (Methodist, later Quaker).
A few presidents of Taiwan have been Christians, including the country's founder Sun Yat-sen (Congregationalist), Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (both Methodists), and Lee Teng-hui (Presbyterian). Ma Ying-jeou apparently received a Catholic baptism in his early teens but does not identify with any religion or with Chinese folk religion practices. At the same time, the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan has been a key supporter of human rights and the Democratic Progressive Party, a stance opposed to many of the politicians listed above.