Posted on 04/24/2025 10:40:24 AM PDT by george76
Western nations are experiencing a spiritual awakening as church pews fill up and baptismal fonts overflow. From France to Belgium, from the United Kingdom to the United States, a dramatic surge in Christian faith is sweeping across the West—a revival many are calling a “silent revolution” against the failures of globalism, mass migration, and leftist cultural engineering.
British conservative commentator Mahyar Tousi highlighted the trend in a powerful new video, reporting on a massive rise in church attendance and adult baptisms this past Easter. With soaring numbers across multiple countries, it’s clear that Christianity is no longer in retreat—it’s fighting back.
France: Adult baptisms surged by a staggering 45% this Easter, with over 10,384 adults baptized—a record high since the French Bishops’ Conference began tracking these figures in 2002. The Archbishop of Lyon noted that many of the newly baptized are young adults searching for truth and order in a chaotic world. France, once heralded as a secular beacon, is rediscovering its Christian soul.
Belgium: According to the Belgian Bishops’ Conference, the number of adult catechumens—individuals preparing for baptism—rose from 180 in 2015 to 362 in 2024, nearly doubling over the decade. In 2025, this figure further increased to 536, marking a 48% rise from the previous year and a threefold increase over ten years.
Austria: The number of adult baptisms in Austria nearly doubled, increasing from approximately 130 in 2024 to around 240 in 2025. A significant portion of these new catechumens are under the age of 20, indicating a growing interest among adolescents.
United Kingdom: In the dioceses of Westminster and Southwark, adult baptisms are up by 25% and at a decade high, respectively. Brits are waking up and choosing faith over fear, tradition over technocracy.
United States: After two decades of decline, the Christian population has stabilized, thanks to a surprising twist—younger generations are rediscovering faith. Many are rejecting the woke cult of self-worship in favor of timeless biblical values.
Dare we think that maybe the globalist creeps are failing and the worm may be turning, so to speak.
It never was in retreat on a global scale. While unbelieving mockers proclaimed the death of the church in what I call the Dying Lands (that is, countries with declining affiliation with Christian faith are also invariably dying off demographically as well), Christian faith has grown well across much of the rest of the world. For people always telling themselves they are so scientific, they were curiously ignorant of these trends and predictions from professionals in this field.
And even in the dying lands, the failure of those rejecting Christ to procreate (curious, given their faith in Darwinism) meant that eventually only dissident communities of Christians would be replenishing themselves well. We might be starting to see the effects of this.
Who would have thought?
Could be an old saying that goes along the lines there ain’t any atheists in foxholes.
Let’s look at the collapse of the culture, migrant invasions, rumors of wars and most in the West have some understanding of the Bible and Revelation or even the Apocrypha.
Are they really returning to the Church or is it more a reaction to the displacement of security they have known all their lives. A growing unease that nothing is really within their control.
The only problem is they are listening to the likes of T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, and Kenneth Copeland instead of teachers of the true gospel.
In Europe?
I think this is highly unlikely.
In all my global travels in the last 50 years, all I saw was religious in-fighting and people leaving.
Muz and Hindu were the only places I saw growth.
I was going to use the atheists and foxholes line but you beat me to it.
This is like the last minute conversion of someone who’s been told he has terminal cancer.
Chirsos Anesti!
The Orthodox Churches are experiencing a tsunami of converts on “both sides of the bond”.
My parish Baptized a 15 year on Tuesday who came to us from a semi-Mormon family. Another 15 year old will be Chrismated during the Divine Liturgy this coming Sunday—and he has already discerned a calling to the Priesthood.
Most of our converts are <35 and most are young men.
Doxa Si, Kyrie, Doxa Si!
Christianity and Judaism are the only things that can save Europe now.
Some of our greatest Christian speakers today are from Africa, kinda ironic, in a way.
The most conservative Roman Catholic Cardinals are from Africa.
An African Pope would be a good thing.
In our Lutheran parish, we are getting a lot of young (middle school) converts from the school.
The kids first, then the family.
Most recent was from a Buddhist family
Maybe Europeans realize the Wrath of God is upon Civilization as we know it and are making a move to offset what could be our destruction.
Our church (SBC) is bursting at the seams now. We’ve run out of room for Sunday school classes, homeschool co-op meetings, youth group, AWANA, men, women, children’s Bible studies etc. We have to build another building to support all of the missions. The youth/young adults are on fire bringing their peers to Christ.
There are thousands of mohamedans coming to Jesus. There is a HUGE turning occuring in Persia (Iran), the Middle East, and Africa.
A few years ago, I saw a Christian TV show, where the interviewee was a foreign Pastor. He was saying that there are multiple imams in mohamedan countries, who have been saved, and preach the Gospel in their mosques.
In many poorer mohamedan countries, the followers don’t understand Arabic, so when the imam reads the koran in Arabic, and then preaches, they simply believe what he says. This gives ‘under cover’ Christian imams the opportunity to preach the Gospel to their flock.
Gateway Pundit is wrong more times than it’s right. No data from anywhere else supports this claim, but I understand how giving an impression of “revival” and regrowth appeals to those who’ve lost their faith in all institutions.
One can only hope.
There’s been a lot of controversy over the theology of an end times revival.
Some people say *No*, and others think there will be one last move of God to save as many people as possible before He brings the curtain down in the Great Tribulation.
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