RELIGIOUS CHANGES IN THE WORLD EVERY 24 HOURS
There is much more to this article(refers to the "World Christian Encyclopedia, written by Dr. Todd M. Johnson and Dr David B Barrett"). The full article was printed in "The Progress Index, Petersburg, VA., Monday, March 19, 2001" Below is a summary of some of the material in the article.             http:/gem-werc.org
  24,000 more in Africa24,000
  21,000 more in Latin America
  69,000 more Christians each day 19,400 more in Asia
  5,000 more in North America
  2,200 more in Europe
  800 more in Oceanian
  68,000 more Muslims
  19,500 more Ethnic & Folk religionists
  16,700 more Non Religious
  10,600 more Buddhists
  3,700 more Hindus
 

2,800 more New Religionists
  1,100 more Sikhs
  400 more Baka'is
  350 more Jews
 

160 more Zoroastrians
  120 more Confucianists
  100 more Jains
  90 more Shintoists
  70 more Taoists

There are 340,500 births per day in the world. (approx. 4,100 abortions per day in America)
There are 144,000 Deaths per day in the world.
There are 147,000 more non-Christians per day.
There are 1,200 more Atheists. [non-Christian and Atheists = 44% of each day's birth]
Christians are spending $740 million per day on all causes.
Christian's church income is $296 million per day.
There are 165,000 Bibles distributed each day.

Percentage Changes of Christians

In 1900 --------------------------------------------In 2000

70% of the world Christians were in Europe----------------Now only 28.4% are in Europe
11.5% of the world Christians were in Latin America-------Now 25.2 are in Latin America
11.4% of the world Christians were in North America------Now 11.2% are in North America
1.7% of the world Christians were in Africa----------------Now 17.8% are in Africa
0.8% of the world Christians were in Oceania--------------Now 1.1% are in Oceania

Breakdown Changes In Christianity

In 1900-------------------------------------------------In 2000
Roman Catholic--51.1%-------[up 10%]------------------- Now 56%
Orthodox--22.2%-------------[down 49%]---------------- Now 11.4%
Anglican--5.9%---------------[down 30%]----------------- Now 4.2%
Independent--1.5%------------[up 1,260%]---------------- Now 20.4%
Others--0.2%------------------[up 700%]------------------ Now 1.4%

From the World Christian Encyclopedia for 2000
As compared to 1900, by Oxford Press
Gathered by Dr. David B. Barrett and Dr. Todd M. Johnson

1. There are 10,000 distinct religions in the world located in 238 nations and territories.
2. Christianity is the world's largest religion. Islam is the second largest and growing.
3. Nearly 1/2 of the world's people are listed as Atheists or non-religious, but this number has
fallen some since the fall of communism.
4. Hinduism has grown a little since 1900.
5. Buddhism has declined.
6. The biggest change is the emergence of the 386 million Independent Christians; they have no formal ties to the 3 Christian categories or Catholicism. They style themselves as Post-Demoninations.
7. Roman Catholics claim ?? Billion people, but most are inactive.
8. Protestants now rank the 3rd largest Christian group with 342 million; 215 million Orthodox; 80 million Anglicans.
9. There's a rise of Pentecostal numbers, who believe in receipt of "gifts" of the Holy Spirit, including speaking in tongues. There's similar increases in Charismatic in the traditional denominations; and neo-charismatics in Independent Churches. (Both Pentecostal and Charismatic movements encompass 524 million believers)
10. In 1900 Christianity was 81% white--Now in 2000 it is only 45% white (because places like Africa went from 9.2% Christian in 1900 to 45.9% in 2000).
11. Northern Americans are 84.2% Christian; 1.4% Muslims; 9.7% Atheist or non-religious; 4.6% all others.
12. Christianity has 33,830 denominations in the world.
13. Asia is only 8.5% Christian and 19.8% Atheist or non-religious.
14. Africa shows 45.9% Christian and basically no Atheist or non-religious. There are 85 million church members in Alliance Independents in Africa.
15. The full Bible is translated into 1,943 languages and the New Testament in an additional 2,897 languages for a total of 4,840 languages.