Posted on 05/28/2017 3:47:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new study reflects a historic population shift that has been years in the making and indicates that Christianity’s future lies less in America or Europe and more in sub-Saharan Africa.
By 2060, a plurality of the world’s Christians – more than 40 percent – will call sub-Saharan Africa home, up from 26 percent in 2015, according to the new analysis of demographic data by Pew.
At the same time, the share of Christians living in many other regions – notably Europe – is projected to further decline, even as the Muslim population there continues to rise.
“This shift in the regional concentration of the global Christian population is being driven by a combination of demographic factors, including fertility, age and migration, as well as religious switching into and out of Christianity,” reports the study’s author, David McClendon. “In sub-Saharan Africa, Christians, on average, are relatively young and have more children than their coreligionists elsewhere, contributing to the projected rapid population growth in the decades ahead.”
By contrast, European Christians are much older and have fewer children. In addition, large numbers of Europeans who were born Christian are leaving the faith to join the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated. As a result, the share of all Christians living in Europe is expected to decline from nearly a quarter in 2015 to just 14 percent by 2060. Conversions from Christianity are also projected to drive down the share of the global Christian population in North America (12 percent in 2015 to 9 percent in 2060).
The new data seems to add credibility to some of the rather bold predictions made lately by prominent Europeans who have been sounding the alarm.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Over 40 years out is a ridiculous amount of time to make these predictions. Christianity is rising fast in Africa and China. I do not know if it will continue for four decades.
Likely, but far, far from certain.
Christianity has also risen in Russia...
There is also no reason to give up on making America a Christian nation once again. There are many good Christians here who walk in Christ’s footsteps!
The Muslims will hurt the Christians of Africa.
Christians in America should not give up on the young. This insanity of the radical left and the harmful interactions with Muslims will bring them back to our side if we are reaching out. The US is still a question mark. If we can hold off the left, many Communist/Muslim sympathizers will flee to Canada and Europe. We just have to hang on hard.
Muslims will fully take over Europe and many will convert rather than die for their nothingness - atheism. Western culture will be totally erased by the white communists and the Muslims. Poor Europe.
Radical Muslims will have Europe, much of Africa, all the middle east... The world is in for a ride in the future.
And I wonder if this optimism takes into account the growing intensity of muslim attacks in sub-Saharan Africa:
http://www.businessinsider.com/global-terrorist-attacks-past-20-years-in-maps-2017-5
But it needs to be fought for.
Indeed! Thanks for the graph!
None of these graphs seem to take into account the Holy Spirit, who works to will and to save. Christianity is not a business where you extrapolate tends. He is a person, He is very much at work, and He will save those who are His.
Yes, but we need to do our part.
Yes of course. Our Lord commands us and we must get out and evangelize.
Amen.
Jesus commanded us to bring the Gospel to all via “the great commission”.
The good news is despite attacks from the Muslims is that the Christian faith is growing.
The good news is that in the Middle East Israel LIVES.
Remember that there is a saying “the blood of the Christian martyrs IS THE SEEDS of new Christians.”
The 1870 Census showed the Civil War cost us many Christians.
Indeed it did.
Partly, it was because so many churches were destroyed in the war. The numbers are of people who are members in a church, so that explains some of it.
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