{"id":10721,"date":"2011-12-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/27\/report-shows-christianity-shifting-to-africa-asia\/"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T12:00:00","slug":"report-shows-christianity-shifting-to-africa-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/12\/27\/report-shows-christianity-shifting-to-africa-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Shows Christianity Shifting To Africa, Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>U.S., December 2011 (RNS, by G. Jeffrey MacDonald): Billed as the most comprehensive and reliable study to date, the Pew Research Center&#8217;s &#8220;Global Christianity&#8221; reports on self-identified Christian populations based on more than 2,400 sources of information, especially census and survey data.<\/p>\n<p>Findings illustrate major shifts since 1910, when two-thirds of the world&#8217;s Christians lived in Europe. Now only one in four Christians live in Europe. Most of the rest are distributed across the Americas (37 percent), sub-Saharan Africa (24 percent) and the Asia-Pacific region (13 percent). The count in Europe and America is decreasing, whereas there is a rise in Asia and, more markedly, Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In two out of three countries in the world, the majority of the population identifies as Christian,&#8221; said Conrad Hackett, lead researcher on the &#8220;Global Christianity&#8221; report. &#8220;I had no idea about that. &#8230; I was surprised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Europe is more religiously diverse than it was in 1910, when 94 percent was Christian. Today, 76 percent of Europeans self-identify as Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service U.S., December 2011 (RNS, by G. Jeffrey MacDonald): Billed as the most comprehensive and reliable study to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}