Sources: Various<\/p>\n
Some fascinating pieces we came across in our sleuthing:<\/p>\n
1. Explore a remarkable visualization of the human population of the world\u2019s cities as Population Mountains<\/a> (The Pudding, via Flowing Data).<\/p>\n 2. Download a 34-page booklet from the UN, The World\u2019s Cities in 2018<\/a> (United Nations, via Justin Long).<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Check out some interesting and data-informed articles on the topic, Is the End of Extreme Poverty in Sight?<\/a> (Mission Frontiers).<\/p>\n 4. See the latest annual Status of Global Christianity<\/a> from Todd Johnson and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity. A related article<\/a> was published in the January issue of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, but you\u2019ll need a subscription to ready it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sources: Various Some fascinating pieces we came across in our sleuthing: 1. Explore a remarkable visualization of the human population of the world\u2019s cities as Population Mountains (The Pudding, via Flowing Data). 2. Download a 34-page booklet from the UN, The World\u2019s Cities in 2018 (United Nations, via Justin Long). 3.\u00a0 Check out some interesting … Continue reading WORLD: Data on Population, Poverty, and Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","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=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}