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China, Macau (Joshua Project)
Progress Scale: Minimally Reached Population: 722,000 Capital: Macau % Ethnic Religions: 0.00 % Professing Christian: 7.92 % Evangelical: 1.93 Peoples Count: 12 In 10/40...
China, Macau (Operation World)
Largest Religion: Chinese Number People Groups: 13 Number Languages: 0 Official Language: Chinese and Portuguese. The majority (86%) speak Cantonese, but Mandarin is also widely spoken For more information go to...
China, People’s Republic (Operation World)
Largest Religion: Non-religious Number People Groups: 544 Number Languages: 296 Official Language: Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese); local languages in the five Autonomous Regions. 15 regional mega-languages. There are...
China, Taiwan (Operation World)
Largest Religion: Chinese Number People Groups: 34 Number Languages: 28 Official Language: language and language of education Mandarin. Hoklo and Hakka are widely spoken For more information go to China, Taiwan on...
China: Language Families
·Type: Maps ·Map Date: 2006 ·Data Source: World Language Mapping System 2006 ·Producer: Global Mapping International ·Collection: Himalayan Budd Ppl (GMMS 2007) ·Size: 8½ x 11 inches, landscape...
China: Statistical Highlights (Missio Nexus)
Statistical highlights that give us a glimpse of the current political situation and status of religion in China. For more information go to China: Statistical Highlights on the Mission Nexus website. The above link opens in a new tab.
Chongqing - Christian Percentage of County/City
· Type: Maps · Map Date: 2018 · Data Source: Asia Harvest; county/city areas © OpenStreetMap contributors, http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. Data available under the Open Database License...
Chosen Witness (Jesus Film)
An unlikely woman’s life is dramatically transformed by a man who will soon change the world forever. In this animated short film, experience the life of Jesus through the eyes of one of his followers, Mary Magdalene. For more information go...
Chris Wright on Being the Church
What can we learn from the template of the Old Testament about the community we are meant to be? Through a deep look into Abraham’s community and aspects of The Nicene Creed, Chris Wright shows what it means to be a community of blessing, faith,...
Christ in the Souk
Recently in the Middle East and Africa, churches have been growing and experiencing an unprecedented openness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. What has caused this increase? And what are the difficulties and challenges for new believers? For more...
Christ-Shaped Servant Leadership: Reflecting on John 13:1-20
He knows they will all desert or betray him, yet he serves in humility and provides a new vision of leadership. This plan will help you meditate deeply on John 13:1-20 and consider its implications for Christ-shaped leadership in a global context....
Christian Faith and Technology
Technology has always been an integral part of human life. Throughout history technology has allowed humans to communicate, build, explore, create, prosper, and survive, but also to exploit, dominate, destroy, and kill. Technological artefacts are...
Christian Ministry Academy
Christian Ministry Academy — where ministry leaders can find free professional development resources for greater Gospel-centered impact. For more information go to the Christian Ministry Academy website. The above link opens in a new tab.
Christian Mission and a Theology of the Body
The Lausanne movement has always had a keen interest in rooting missiology in theological reflection. Missiology is, fundamentally, about the embodiment of the Christian message in the lives of those who faithfully seek to communicate it across...
Christian Witness to Buddhists
This report deals with the two basic schools of Buddhist thought: Theravada (Hinayana, the Southern Schools) and Mahayana (the Northern Schools). ... The problem motivating the study was that, except in Korea where a strong indigenous concept of God...
Christian Witness to Hindus
We regret that, after so many years of sincere effort by so many faithful people, the number of Christians in India is still less than 3% of the population. Further, the dispersed Hindus in other parts of the world have been largely neglected by the...
Christian Witness to Large Cities
Realistic strategies for world evangelization must inevitably confront the awesome urbanization of the world. The Consultation on World Evangelization, therefore, recognized that challenge in designating “Christian Witness to Large Cities” as...
Christian Witness to Marxists
Marxism today is not monolithic. First, there is the post-revolutionary Marxism of the Eastern European bloc of nations, including the Soviet Union. Secondly, there is the potentially revolutionary situation of the Third World of Africa, Asia, and...
Christian Witness to Muslims
A Call to Reflection Since many of the study materials produced by the Strategy Working Group of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) have been based on the “Peoples Approach,” we have tried to analyse the different disciplines...
Christian Witness to New Religious Movements
New religious movements are springing up in the wake of worldwide religious ferment. In some cases, dying embers of old religions have suddenly burst into new flames. In other situations, religious “seed” transported, accidentally or...
Christian Witness to Nominal Christians Among Protestants
There could be hundreds of millions of nominal1 Christians among Protestants around the world. It is impossible to get a precise figure; and in this matter, we are aware of the danger of appearing proud or judgemental. As we considered our task, two...
Christian Witness to Nominal Christians among Roman Catholics
Among approximately one billion people in the world who are classified as “Christians” it is recognized that many still need to be evangelized. They are “nominal Christians” who have not committed themselves to Jesus Christ and do not...
Christian Witness to Nominal Christians among the Orthodox
The history of the Orthodox churches goes back to the early centuries. Throughout many centuries of persecution, these churches bravely proclaimed the gospel and were very much alive. This history reflects the reality of the often-quoted axiom,...
Christian Witness to People of African Traditional Religions
This paper is divided into two major sections. The first deals with a general understanding of African Traditional Religion (ATR) and our attitude toward it. The second deals with a selected comparison between ATR and Christianity and suggests some...
Christian Witness to Refugees
The plight of the refugees around the world has provoked our Consultation to reflect upon our responsibility, as Christians, to them. The following paper represents the fruit of that study and is intended to serve the church of Jesus Christ in the...
Christian Witness to Secularized People
This document focuses primarily on strategy for reaching the secularized with the gospel. Initially, we shall attempt a broad definition of the concepts of “secularization” and “secular” in order to identify the target groups. Moreover, we...
Christian Witness to the Chinese People
The Chinese constitute the largest single segment of the human race. Their unbroken history of more than five thousand years marks a culture that is durable and resilient. They have survived the ravages of countless internal struggles and foreign...
Christian Witness to the Jewish People
Scripture gives the rationale for Jewish evangelism in John 14:6 and Acts 4:12, which indicate that salvation is found only in Christ. For Christians to know that Christ is the only way to be saved and then not proclaim the gospel to Jews presumes...
Christian Witness to the Urban Poor
In 20 years from now, the world’s population will have increased by 2 billion people. In 20 years, 80% of the world’s population will live in the Third World countries. In 20 years, 12 of the 15 largest cities will be in the Third World, and 60...
Christian Witness to Traditional Religionists of Asia and Oceania
In a time of rapid urbanization, the revitalization of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism, and the spread of secular materialism, it is easy to overlook the fact that there remain many millions of people on the fringes of the great religions in Asia and...