The purpose of this study is to examine religious and faith-based charities and their categories and sub-categories in Canada (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Other religions). This is part of a mapping exercise, which will look at specific religion and registered charities for financial information. The study aims to better understand the philanthropic sector of religious and faith-based charities.
This research paper summarizes some general information regarding religious and faith-based charities in Canada through a series of five research notes. The first presents summarizes some general information regarding religion charities in Canada. The note includes definition of religion, presentation of the methodology for the series of notes, argumentation on the cost of religion and presentation of some statistics at the national level. The following notes present statistics on a specific category (Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Other religions) and its sub-categories on religious and faith-based charities.
