{"id":5534,"date":"2015-04-15T06:05:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2015-04-14T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:34:32","slug":"world-growth-projections-of-world-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"WORLD: Growth Projections of World Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Missiologically Thinking, April 6, 2015<\/p>\n<p>[On April 2], the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/\">Pew Research Center<\/a> released an extensive report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/04\/02\/religious-projections-2010-2050\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/04\/02\/religious-projections-2010-2050\/\">future populations<\/a> of different world religions. Though there is troubling information here, this is a fascinating work providing a sobering reality of our world. Here are a few of the projections [for] 2010-2050:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the United States, Christians are expected to decline from 76 percent to 66 percent of the population.<\/li>\n<li>In the United States, the unaffiliated are expected to increase from 16 percent to 26 percent of the population.<\/li>\n<li>In the United States, Muslims will outnumber Jews.<\/li>\n<li>In the United States, the Hindu population will double.<\/li>\n<li>Europe\u2019s Christian population will decrease by 100 million.<\/li>\n<li>Europe\u2019s Hindu population will double, Muslims will comprise 10 percent of the population, and the unaffiliated will reach about a quarter of the population.<\/li>\n<li>4 out of 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Sahara Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The global number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians.<\/li>\n<li>The global Buddhist population will remain the same.<\/li>\n<li>The global unaffiliated will decline in population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Such predictions are difficult to make with accuracy. However, this report should lead us to prayer, more intentional disciple-making, healthy questioning of our present structures and institutions, and the avoidance of burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the possible future.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdpayne.org\/2015\/04\/06\/growth-projections-of-world-religions\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.jdpayne.org\/2015\/04\/06\/growth-projections-of-world-religions\/\">Read full story<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/04\/02\/religious-projections-2010-2050\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/04\/02\/religious-projections-2010-2050\/\">the Pew report<\/a>. Also note that the Center for the Study of Global Christianity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonconwell.edu\/resources\/documents\/CSGCPewResponse.pdf\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonconwell.edu\/resources\/documents\/CSGCPewResponse.pdf\">offers a different analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Missiologically Thinking, April 6, 2015 [On April 2], the Pew Research Center released an extensive report on the future populations of different world religions. Though there is troubling information here, this is a fascinating work providing a sobering reality of our world. Here are a few of the projections [for] 2010-2050: In the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WORLD: Growth Projections of World Religions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5535,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}