Other Christian communities
The diversity under the heading “Other Protestant Churches and communities” is so great that it is barely possible to get a reasonably exact picture. It extends from the Gemeinde für Christus (Church of Christ, formerly known as the Evangelischer Brüderverein or Evangelical Brotherhood Church) via various Pentecostal and Charismatic Revivalist communities through to the Baptists and the Salvation Army.
What is notable here is that this group of the religious denominations has shown continual growth in the past 40 years. Growth was actually fairly strong between 1990 and 2000, from 1.5% of the population in 1990 to 4.3% in 2000. While the “official” national Churches have been lamenting a loss in membership, many Christians are apparently being attracted to one of the Free Churches. An additional characteristic of this group is rapid change: most small splitter groups come and go, and it is hardly possible to record them statistically.
However, highly official Churches which are in the minority in Switzerland, such as the Lutherans (Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Switzerland) in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Zurich and Vaduz, or the Anglicans with churches throughout the whole of Switzerland (Swiss Archdeaconry) belong to this category, as two Protestant Churches Eglise Française and the Chiesa evangelica di lingua italiana (Waldensians).