MIGRATION STREAM BY RELIGION This table covers the Settlement Date(a) range from 1 May 2009 to 04 May 2014. You should note and take into account the matters identified as caveats to this data (refer to separate page). (a) Settlement Date is 'date of visa grant ' for settlers who were in Australia when their visa was granted, and 'date of arrival in Australia ' for settlers who were overseas when their visa was granted. Migration Stream Religion Family Humanitarian Skilled Other/Unknown Grand Total Aboriginal Evangelical Missions 0 * 0 0 * Agnosticism 111 47 * 0 162 Ahl-l Haqq (Iran) 0 9 0 0 9 Ahmadi * 576 * 0 584 Albanian Orthodox 0 * 0 0 * Alevite/Alawi/Alawites 20 142 0 * 164 Ancestor Veneration 7 * 0 0 8 Ancient Church of the East 0 6 0 0 6 Anglican 642 91 353 0 1,086 Animism * 301 0 0 302 Antiochian Orthodox 0 * 0 0 * Apostolic Church so described * 7 * 0 15 Armenian Apostolic Church 8 82 0 0 90 Assemblies of God 33 19 * 0 56 Assyrian Church of the East 9 1,161 0 0 1,170 Atheism 253 77 36 0 366 Aust Aboriginal Traditional Religions * 0 0 0 * Baha I World Faith 47 920 * 0 968 Baptist 132 234 41 * 412 Born Again Christian 57 79 25 0 161 Brethren * * 0 0 * Buddhism 5,029 2,141 585 * 7,760 Caodaism 8 0 0 0 8 Catholic(NEC) 601 2,141 146 10 2,898 Chaldean Catholic 34 3,969 0 0 4,003 Chinese Religions (NFD) 15 27 49 0 91 Christadelphians * 10 0 0 13 Christian & Missionary Alliance 7 18 * 0 26 Christian (NFD) 5,953 18,039 1,792 23 25,807 Christian City Church * 59 * 0 61 Christian Life Churches International * * 0 0 * Christian Outreach Centres 6 * 0 0 11 Christian Revival Crusade 0 * 0 0 * Christian Science * 0 0 0 * Church of Christ (Nondenom) 18 0 15 0 33 Church of Jesus Christ of Lds (NFD) 0 7 0 0 7 Church of Scientology * * 0 0 * Church of the Nazarene * 0 0 0 * Churches of Christ (NFD) 32 20 16 0 68 Confucianism * 0 0 0 * Congregational * 0 0 0 * Coptic Orthodox Church 27 663 10 0 700 Druse/Druze 16 * 0 0 18 Eckankar * * 0 0 6 Ethnic Evangelical Churches 30 12 8 0 50 Fa Lun Gong 164 246 * * 417 Foursquare Gospel Church 0 * 0 0 * Free Reformed * 0 0 0 * Full Gospel Church * 0 0 0 * Gnostic Christians * 0 0 0 * Greek Orthodox 112 * 7 0 123 Hinduism 1,844 5,100 710 * 7,658 Humanism 0 * 0 0 * Inadequately Described 132 24 39 0 195 Independent Evangelical Churches 10 * 0 0 11 Islam 3,903 10,589 370 10 14,872 Isma'ilis (Iran) 0 7 0 0 7 Ithna'ashari Shi'is (Iraq) 0 * 0 0 * Japanese Religions (NFD) * 0 0 0 * Jehovahs Witnesses 91 172 8 0 271 Judaism 110 8 19 0 137 Latter Day Saints/Mormons/Church of Jes 56 * 12 0 70 Lutheran 114 14 14 0 142 Macedonian Orthodox 47 0 * 0 48 Maronite Catholic 31 * * 0 39 Melkite Catholic * 0 0 0 * Molokan * 0 0 0 * Nature Religions (NFD) 0 * 0 0 * New Apostolic Church * 0 * 0 6 No Religion (NFD) 10,660 462 5,163 0 16,285 Not Stated 335,203 2,837 685,994 137 1,024,174 Oriental Christian (NEC) * * 0 0 * Oriental Christian (NFD) 0 10 0 0 10 Orthodox (NEC) 67 150 * 0 219 Orthodox (NFD) 1,649 434 30 * 2,116 Other Christian (NEC) 64 223 40 0 327 Other Non Christian 82 49 7 0 138 Other Protestant (NEC) 10 53 * 0 65 Other Protestant (NFD) 431 187 42 0 660 Paganism * 0 0 0 * Pentecostal (NEC) 6 135 * 0 142 Pentecostal (NFD) 78 759 16 0 853 Presbyterian 63 43 15 0 121 Presbyterian & Reformed (NFD) * * * 0 * Rastafarianism * 0 0 0 * Reformed 10 15 17 0 42 Religious Belief (NFD) 68 383 9 0 460 Religious Groups (NEC) * 14 0 0 15 Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) * 0 0 0 * Reorganised Church of Jesus Christ of Latt * 0 0 0 * Revival Centres * 0 0 0 * Rhema Family Church 0 * 0 0 * Romanian Orthodox * 15 0 0 18 Russian Orthodox 246 * 8 * 260 Sabean Mandean/Sabian 29 1,932 9 0 1,970 Salvation Army * 0 * 0 8 Serbian Orthodox 79 12 0 0 91 Seventh-Day Adventist 160 246 48 0 454 Shia 157 17,266 7 0 17,430 Shinto 8 0 * 0 9 Sikhism 291 73 141 0 505 Spiritualism * * 0 0 * Sufism 0 * 0 0 * Sunis (Iran) 0 8 0 0 8 Sunni 236 2,965 15 * 3,217 Syrian (Jacobite) Church 0 64 0 0 64 Taoism 19 * 6 0 27 Theism (NEC) 0 * 0 0 * Ukrainian Catholic * 0 0 0 * Ukrainian Orthodox 6 0 0 0 6 Unitarian * 0 0 0 * United Pentecostal * * 0 0 6 Uniting Church 42 7 19 0 68 Wesleyan Methodist Church 169 16 66 0 251 Western Catholic/Catholic 6,740 73 1,296 * 8,110 Worldwide Church of God 0 0 6 0 6 Yazidism 0 * 0 0 * Zoroastrianism * 51 * 0 59 (blank) * 0 0 0 * Grand Total 376,358 75,565 697,256 205 1,149,387 .