ITEMS OF INTEREST February 19, 2007 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Richard N. Ostling, Steve Bray, Christie Storm

PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT of key religious developments is the ongoing, inexorable shift of Christianity's population and dynamism away from the West and toward a markedly different style in developing nations of the "Global South."

Gordon-Conwell Seminary's Center for the Study of Global Christianity says 62 percent of the world's 2 billion Christians live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, a percentage that's destined to rise.

Penn State historian Philip Jenkins first examined such trends in The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.

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