Christian state
These countries include Argentina, Armenia, Costa Rica, El Salvador,[7] Denmark (incl.
Greenland and the Faroes),[8] England,[9] Dominican Republic,[10] Georgia,[11] Greece,[12] Hungary,[13] Iceland,[14] Liechtenstein,[15] Malta,[16] Monaco,[17] Norway,[18] Samoa,[19] Serbia,[20] Tonga,[21] Tuvalu,[22] Vatican City,[23] and Zambia.
[31] John Binns describes this era, writing that:[33]A new stage in the history of the Church began when not just localised communities but nations became Christian.
[3] In 326, according to official tradition of the Georgian Orthodox Church, following the conversion of Mirian and Nana, the country of Georgia became a Christian state, the Emperor Constantine the Great sending clerics for baptising people.
[4][34] In the Middle Ages, efforts were made in order to establish a Pan-Christianity state by uniting the countries within Christendom.
[7] As such, Catholic Christian holy days are recognized by the government and "public schools provide religious education", although parents are able to opt-out their children if they choose to do so.
[49] Prof. Wasif Shadid, of Leiden University, writes that: The Lutheran established church is a department of the state.
The registration of births, deaths and marriages falls under this ministry of church affairs, and normally speaking the local Lutheran pastor is also the official registrar.
"[50] Barbara Yorke writes that the "Carolingian Renaissance heightened appreciation within England of the role of king and church in a Christian state.
In characteristically British fashion, where the state is representative of civil society, it was Parliament that determined, in the Act of Establishment, that the monarch had to be Anglican.
[9]Christian religious education is taught to children in primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom.
[52] English schools have a legal requirement for a daily act of collective worship "of a broadly Christian character"[53] that is widely flouted.
In the Dominican Republic, religious education classes must be of either a Catholic or evangelical Protestant basis and are required be taught in all elementary and secondary public schools.
[58][59] Greece is a Christian state,[12][60] with the Greek Orthodox Church playing "a dominant role in the life of the country".
[68] Cole Durham and Tore Sam Lindholm, writing in 2013, stated that "For a period of one thousand years Norway has been a kingdom with a Christian state church" and that a decree went out in 1739 ordering that "Elementary schooling for all Norwegian children became mandatory, so that all Norwegians should be able to read the Bible and the Lutheran Catechism firsthand.
"[70] As such, the "Norwegian constitution decrees that Lutheranism is the official religion of the State and that the King is the supreme temporal head of the Church.
Article 1 of the Samoan Constitution states that “Samoa is a Christian nation founded of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”.
More research has since been made that perhaps prove the existence of Serbs living in the Balkans during Roman times in Ilyria.
[83] Under the rule of George Tupou I, there was established a "rigorous constitutional clause regulating observation of the Sabbath".
