http://pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-worlds-christian-population.aspx
John L Allen har läst en rapport från ”Pew Form on religious and public life” som visar färsk statistik om världens kristna befolkning.
John L Allen analyserar statistiken och drar 3 egna slutsatser som han kallar ” lagar om kristen termodynamik” och som han menar på ett övertygande sätt åskådliggör hur kristna strukturer förändras när de interagerar med sin omgivning.
- If you want Christianity to shrink, give it wealth and privilege and back it up with the power of the state.
- If you want Christianity to show surprising resilience, suppress its structures and persecute its people.
- If you want Christianity to thrive, drop it into a free market environment and force it to hustle.
”Nigeria today has more than twice as many Protestants as Germany, the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation; Brazil has more than twice as many Catholics as Italy, the headquarters of Roman Catholicism Inc.”
”Despite decades of state-imposed atheism, Christianity is doing remarkably well in Communist lands (either former or current). Two in three Russians still identify as Orthodox, and some analysts believe there’s a renaissance afoot in Russian Orthodoxy. China is experiencing a spiritual boom, and today China is the third-largest Protestant nation in the world, trailing only the United States and Nigeria.
Christianity’s greatest growth is in Africa, a wide-open spiritual marketplace marked by stiff competition among religious alternatives.”
Tio i topp lista 2010 – katolska länder
- Brazil: 133 million
- Mexico: 96 million
- Philippines: 76 million
- United States: 74 million
- Italy: 50 million
- Colombia: 38 million
- France: 37 million
- Poland: 35 million
- Spain: 34 million
- DR Congo: 31 million
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/study-compares-catholicism-christianity-across-globe
// Irène
