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Amerindian peoples. Their populations range from less than 1% (Brazil, Argentina, North America), to nearly 50% (Peru 45%, Guatemala 40%), to higher (Bolivia 55%). In most of the smaller tribes there are Bible translation and church-planting ministries. However, among some tribes in Colombia, Venezuela and parts of Brazil and Mexico, various factors prevent the effective […]

Environmental degradation and exploitation will have a direct and tragic impact on Amerindian peoples and indirectly on the entire world. The disappearing Amazon rainforest is only the most prominent of such issues; the Central American forests and overuse of US aquifers are other serious issues. Short-term greed is doing long-term or even permanent damage. Unsustainable […]

People movements are growing among the Amerindians, who have long been resistant or indifferent to the gospel – understandable given that Christianity mostly followed in the wake of the devastation of disease, conquest, and colonialism. Church growth is occurring among Quechua and Aymara churches in the Andes, Mayan peoples in Central America and, increasingly, native […]

Nations with the smallest number of evangelicals. These are priority countries with less than 1% evangelicals: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Guinea, Niger, Djibouti, Somalia, Mayotte and Comoros. They fall into four main groups – North Africa, West Africa, Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

The Muslim-Christian fault line stretches from Senegal across the Sahel to Ethiopia and along Africa’s Indian Ocean seaboard. The potential for widened conflagrations and confrontations is high because of increasingly aggressive Islamist movements and because of African Christian evangelism gaining converts from within Muslim communities. This has been a major factor contributing to war or […]

Sikhism, originating in northwest India, is one of the more recent world religions. Many Sikhs have migrated to other countries – Canada, East Africa, the UK, Southeast Asia. Few Christians have ever sought to understand their religion to find ways of sharing the gospel. Christians from a Sikh background remain relatively few, but this is […]

Hinduism has made notable missionary inroads in the West through the wide acceptance of transcendental meditation, yoga, New Age thinking, sects such as Hare Krishna, and Indian gurus. It has also become more militant and repressive of Christians in its heartlands of India and Nepal, reacting against the evangelism and growth of the Church. The […]

Christianity has become the most global of religions. There is no country without a Christian witness or fellowship of indigenous believers (although in a very few cases, they must remain secretive). There are 14 countries with a resident Christian population of less than 1%, and a further 23 with less than 5%. Nominalism is a […]

Muslims live largely in the great arc of territory stretching from West Africa through the Middle East, Central Asia, to Indonesia. Their growth in the past 100 years has been rapid – from 12.3% in 1900 to 22.9% in 2010. Most numerical growth is through higher birth rates. Conversion growth is greatest in West Africa, […]

Sikhism, originating in northwest India, is one of the more recent world religions. Many Sikhs have migrated to other countries – Canada, East Africa, the UK, Southeast Asia. Few Christians have ever sought to understand their religion to find ways of sharing the gospel. Christians from a Sikh background remain relatively few, but this is […]