How to Use non-Christian in a Sentence

non-Christian

noun
  • About 11% now embrace a non-Christian faith.
    — Thomas Tweed, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
  • It's also been rumored that non-Christian rituals have taken place here.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2026
  • The list does not include translations used by Catholics or sacred texts from non-Jewish and non-Christian faiths.
    — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • The list does not include translations used by Catholics or sacred texts from non-Jewish and non-Christian faiths.
    — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This is especially true of Jews and others who practice non-Christian religions, as well as those who practice no religion.
    — Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Soloveichik, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, was the only non-Christian religious leader who was to participate.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 17 May 2026
  • Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Meir Soloveichik was the only non-Christian religious leader listed on the program.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
  • Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Meir Soloveichik is the only non-Christian religious leader listed as a participant.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • About a third of adults in Texas identify as non-Christian, according to Pew Research Center surveys from 2023-2024.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • The tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas dates back to the early 20th century, when Chinese immigrants were one of the largest non-Christian communities in the United States.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • But Miller has continued to push not just for the deportation of people in the country illegally but also for narrowing or closing legal immigration pathways, especially for people from poor, not-majority-white, non-Christian nations.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There were, of course, non-Christian sources of human dignity that predated Christianity—Judaism is the most obvious and shining example; Stoicism another—but Christianity added immeasurably to them.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • This undermines the religious liberty not only of non-Christian Americans but also of mainline Protestants, non-MAGA Catholics, and Black church traditions.
    — Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Reia Li The tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas dates back to the early 20th Century, when Chinese immigrants were one of the largest non-Christian communities in the United States.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • That said, in the United States, Christmas is so culturally powerful – a day that almost everyone has off, and that the majority of Americans spend with their kith and kin – that many non-Christian immigrants celebrate it in a secular way, with family visits, Santa and a tree.
    — Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Also scheduled are Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron and Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, the only faith leader on the program representing a non-Christian faith.
    — Peter Smith, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Following Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, the rulers of Portugal and Spain, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), partitioned the non-Christian world between them by an imaginary line in the Atlantic, 370 leagues (about 1,300 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026

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