Om få år vil der være flere kristne i Afrika syd for Sahara end Europa. I 2010 førte Europa med 565 millioner mod 516 mio. afrikanere, men med Afrikas hastigt stigende folketal indtræffer skiftet snart.
Allerede i dag er knapt 1/4 af alle kristne afrikanere og bare i Nigeria, kontinentets folkerigeste land, bor der 80 millioner kristne eller halvdelen af indbyggerne (2010-tal).
Det skriver Dansk Missionsråds nyhedsbrev “Kirken Update” onsdag i sin seneste udgave med henvisning til den nyeste rapport om den globale kristenhed, et studie fra “Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life”.
Omtalen fortsætter på engelsk:
The number of Christians around the world has more than tripled in the last 100 years, from about 600 million in 1910 to 2,18 billion in 2010. But the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1,8 billion in 1910 to 6,9 billion in 2010.
As a result, Christians make up about the same portion of the world’s population today (32 per cent) as they did a century ago (35 per cent).
This apparent stability, however, masks a momentous shift.
Although Europe and the Americas still are home to a majority of the world’s Christians (63 per cent), that share is much lower than it was in 1910 (93 per cent).
At the same time, Christianity has grown enormously in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, where there were relatively few Christians at the beginning of the 20th century.
Today, only about a quarter of all Christians live in Europe (26 per cent). A plurality – more than a third – now are in the Americas (37 per cent). About one in every four Christians lives in sub-Saharan Africa (24 per cent).
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http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-exec.aspx
