KRISTENDOMEN I VÄRLDEN

In the 1990s, the largest religion is Christianity, with 1870 million adherents. Chrisianty is growing across the world, especially in South Korea, Russia and sub-Saharan Afrika. The faith is expanding largely through population increase: Chrisianitu, in Europe, Russia, the Americas, Australia and now in sub-Saharan Afrika.

The Chrisianity have explicit missionary teaching within their sacred books and within the tradition of the faith. When other have en element of mission - usually seen as being carried out though personal contact and friendship - organizations within Chrisianity place a structural and financial emphasis upon taking their message to other people, as well as to non-prctising members of the their own faith.

There are many small christian communities in Muslim majority countries, often pre-dating islam, their numbers are remaining or decresing through (as in Syria, Egypt ot the Lebanon). Jowever, there are large numbres of Filipnos, Korean and Christians from other countries, living and working across muslim heartlands.

The faith found some culutres resistant. India and China, despite countries of effort, have proved difficult for Christians to penetrate, Christians are a tiny minority. In China, until very recently, never more than 1 percent og chinese would call themselves christian.