World Christianity Today: By the Numbers
G. Weigel - First Things
http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/02/world-christianity-by-the-numbersThe annual "Status of Global Christianity" survey published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers ... In the last quarter of the twentieth century Catholicism was displaced by Islam as the world's largest religious community, as the global Muslim population grew from 571 million in 1970 to today's 1.7 billion. The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined.
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