There is a new edition of Operation World, the definitive prayer guide for every nation and people group on earth. Here’s a few interesting facts from the first twenty five pages. The world’s population nearly doubled between 1970 and 2010. 63.2% of the worlds Christians are in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. About 10% of [...]
Category Archives: Global South
7 billion reasons
1 November, 2011 – 2:02 AM
Here are his estimates of the trends in population growth and the changes in religious identification since 1900. Note the incredible rise of Pentecostal/Charismatic movements (includes African independent churches and Chines underground house churches) which has taken place predominantly in the developing world where the population is growing fastest.
China soon to be the largest Christian country on earth.
3 October, 2011 – 4:16 AM
Tim Gardam reports for the BBC on Christians in China. Chairman Mao once described religion as “poison”, and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s attempted to eradicate it. Driven underground, Christianity not only survived, but with its own Chinese martyrs, it grew in strength. More people go to church on Sunday in China [...]
Our African future
24 June, 2011 – 3:18 AM
According to Auguste Comte, demography is destiny. If he’s right, the future is African. By October this years there will be 7 billion of us on the planet. Sometime around 2025 world population will reach 8 billion. We’re not talking about more of the same. Europe is shrinking. Africa is exploding. Africa’s population has almost [...]
Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
11 January, 2011 – 4:58 AM
I’ve just stumbled across the Pew Forum’s extensive report on Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa. It reveals the incredible transformation of the region over the last century. According to the report: In little more than a century, the religious landscape of sub-Saharan Africa has changed dramatically. As of 1900, both Muslims and Christians were [...]
The rising tide of Chinese Christianity
18 September, 2010 – 9:40 AM
NPR reports on one of the most amazing advances in the history of the Christian movement. The missionaries planted the seed of the gospel but it’s the Chinese themselves, largely without foreign interference, who are reaching their nation. The current estimate is 100,000,000 followers of Jesus in China today. We have much to learn from [...]
Kingdom without borders
14 September, 2010 – 2:17 AM
Miriam Adeney tells the story of how the gospel saved a whole people from annihilation. In Borneo, in the middle of the nineteenth century the British governor prohibited head-hunting and improved agricultural methods. More rice and freedom from fear led to more fermented beverages, partying and heavy drinking. Alcoholism became a major scourge, families were [...]
Christianity surges in Indonesia
11 May, 2010 – 10:50 PM
Time Magazine reports: A religious revolution is transforming Indonesia. Part of the spiritual blossoming entails Muslims embracing a more conservative form of faith, mirroring global trends that have meant a proliferation of headscarves and beards in modern Islamic capitals. More surprising, though, is the boom in Christianity — officially Indonesia’s second largest faith and a [...]
Why Nepal?
9 February, 2010 – 9:20 AM
Prayer can penetrate anywhere. Long before we enter the valleys of Nepal prayer can be doing a concrete work in laying the foundations for the future kingdom. . . . When we have prepared the way with the Spirit of God in prayer, he will answer those very prayers in permitting us to occupy Nepal. [...]
The kingdom comes to Nepal
6 February, 2010 – 8:28 PM
John B shares some great news out of Nepal. Until recently Nepal was the world’s only Hindu kingdom. The mighty Himalayas and the fact that Nepal was a closed land until the middle of the twentieth century enticed many, but from 1881 to 1925 only 153 Europeans are known to have visited Nepal and none [...]
