AFWIS Joins Operation World in Prayer for the World, The Unfinished Task - Religious Systems

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Jan 08: World, The Unfinished Task - Religious Systems

World, The Unfinished Task - Religious Systems

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Geography

Area: 134,940,000 sq km
Antarctica, with 14 million sq km, is not included.
Population: 6,908,000,000    Annual Growth: 1.20%
Urbanites: 51%

Peoples

    Languages: 6,909

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	2,229,951,315	32.29	1.2
Evangelicals	545,886,818	7.9	2.6

Answer to Prayer

Evangelical Christianity grew at a rate faster than any other world religion or global religious movement. The post-WWII surge of evangelical missions was an astonishing success story, but most of the subsequent growth came from a new generation of indigenous evangelical movements around the world. Evangelicals numbered 89 million (2.9%) in 1960, but by 2010 they were 546 million (7.9%). The growth rate peaked around 1990 at 4.5%. With population growth rates for the world generally in decline, it is almost inevitable that all other rates will see a relative decline as well. Without an amazing outpouring of the Holy Spirit, such growth cannot be sustained.
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The Unfinished Task - Religious Systems

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Challenge for Prayer

The rise of fundamentalism in the majority of the world’s faith systems. Most people would associate the term “fundamentalist” with Muslim terrorists or strident Christian conservatives, but today some groups of Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, ethnoreligionists and, increasingly, atheists fit such a term quite adequately. Recently, secularism as a social construct and atheism as a belief system in the West have, in some circles, become particularly aggressive and assertive, seeking to eradicate religion from the public sphere and humiliate those of religious – or at least Christian – persuasion.
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The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of The Unfinished Task - Religious Systems.