This article is a part of the March 2013 issue of the Lausanne Global Analysis. Access other articles from this issue or download the full issue as a free PDF download. South Asia (SA) houses the largest concentration of MuslimsRead more…
New Threats To Religious Freedom In Europe And Their Implications
This article is a part of the March 2013 issue of the Lausanne Global Analysis. Access other articles from this issue or download the full issue as a free PDF download. On 15th January the European Court of Human RightsRead more…
The Global Charter of Conscience
This article is a part of the January 2013 issue of the Lausanne Global Analysis. Access other articles from this issue or download the full issue as a free PDF download. The Global Charter of Conscience was launched at theRead more…
Progress in Bible translation
Many of the salient points of the Cape Town Commitment are difficult to measure tangibly: love, faithful witness, and discipleship, among others. Helpful indicators of actual progress for some of the topics referenced, however, are much easier to pinpoint. OneRead more…
“Finishing the Task” of world evangelization
Albert W. Hickman is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA, USA. He is Associate Editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). What isRead more…
Highly Contextualized Missions: Surveying the Global Conversation
A special feature of Cape Town 2010 was the opportunity for people around the world to witness the live events via the 650 GlobaLink sites and afterwards to participate in the online Lausanne Global Conversation. Through the Global Conversation, tensRead more…
Number of Evangelicals worldwide
Evangelicalism is a dynamic Christian force in the world today. From the onset of Evangelicalism in Great Britain in the 1730s to the United States in the nineteenth century and now as a global phenomenon, Evangelicals have had great influenceRead more…
Number of Christians in China and India
It is exceptionally difficult to estimate the numbers of Christians in the world’s two most populous countries, China and India. Both China and India are among the countries with the most total Christians, as these minority populations number in theRead more…
Migration and Europe: A regional and analytical brief
Darrell Jackson is Director of the Nova Research Centre & Lecturer in European Studies at Redcliffe College in Gloucester, England. He is Director of the Lausanne Researchers’ Network and Researcher in European Mission and Evangelism at the Conference of EuropeanRead more…
Southern Sudan
Sudan has suffered through two catastrophic civil wars since gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1956. The first Sudanese Civil War lasted from 1955–1972 and the second from 1983–2005. Ethnic and religious clashes continued between the two wars, resultingRead more…