Christianity 2017: Five Hundred Years of Protestant Christianity
Throughout 2017, Protestants around the world will celebrate five hundred years of history. Although for several centuries the Protestant movement was based in Europe, then North America, from its Western homelands it eventually spread all over the world. In 2017 there are 560 million Protestants fo...
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Veröffentlicht in: | International bulletin of mission research 2017-01, Vol.41 (1), p.41-52 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Throughout 2017, Protestants around the world will celebrate five hundred years of history. Although for several centuries the Protestant movement was based in Europe, then North America, from its Western homelands it eventually spread all over the world. In 2017 there are 560 million Protestants found in nearly all the world’s 234 countries. Of these 560 million, only 16 percent are in Europe, with 41 percent in Africa, a figure projected to reach 53 percent by 2050. The article also presents the latest statistics related to global Christianity and its mission. |
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ISSN: | 2396-9393 2396-9407 |
DOI: | 10.1177/2396939316669492 |