Top 20 Countries Where Christianity is Growing the Fastest

Global Christian Relief ^ | February 27, 2025 | Tobin Perry

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Christianity is growing at an unprecedented rate in several regions around the world, particularly in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, known as the Global South. From the spread of passionate faith-based communities to the establishment of thriving churches in urban centers, Christianity’s growth rate continues to climb. “According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary”, these trends indicate that Christianity is expanding in new and dynamic ways...Factors like migration, high birth rates, and the influence of revivalist movements are all contributing to the rapid growth. Let’s examine where in the world Christianity is growing the fastest. These regions are experiencing a significant rate of population increase among Christians, often driven by unique cultural, social, and political factors.

- Nigeria (Nigeria is a Christian powerhouse in Africa, where Christian groups are growing swiftly...This is despite the increases in violent Islamic extremism.)

- China (Increasingly, young, educated individuals are embracing Christianity.)

- India

- Indonesia

- Brazil (Amid rising conflict in Latin America driven by drug cartels and organized crime syndicates, Brazil remains one of the largest Christian populations worldwide, with strong Catholic roots.)

- Phillippines

- Ethiopia

- United States (Younger people are also being drawn back to church.)

- Kenya

- South Korea (South Korea has a high percentage of Christians, particularly among urban professionals...Global Christian Relief has assisted North Korean defectors.)

- Mexico

- Uganda

- Vietnam

- Ghana

- Argentina

- Iran (Iran’s Christian community, while small, is growing rapidly despite government opposition. Many are drawn to Christianity’s message of hope and freedom.)

- Mozambique

- Tanzania

- Russia (Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on the church during its war with Ukraine...)

- Colombia (Despite Colombia’s notorious and violent drug cartels...)

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Hey Putin is just attacking one of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. He is a support of the Russian Orthodox and the other Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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Evangelical and Catholic institutions were being persecuted even before the Ukraine War.

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Countries where is is dying the fastest - most of Western Europe where it has turned into just anothe Woke social services institution.

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Very misleading.

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Misleading how so?

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Fortunately, evangelical Christians from south and Central America are establishing churches throughout Spain.

Evangelical Christians are rapidly expanding churches in France.

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"I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest."
John 4:35

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Countries where is is dying the fastest - most of Western Europe where it has turned into just anothe Woke social services institution.

According to scholar Shay Khatiri of Johns Hopkins University, “Islam is the fastest shrinking religion in there [Iran], while Christianity is growing the fastest”

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My recollection is that it was Zelensky who persecuted churches.