Updates

National Geographic 1-Dec-07
States of Faith Map and Graph of Religious Followers by % of population, 2005

The Economist 3-Nov-07
In God's Name Graph of What the World Believes

The Washington Post 7-Oct-07
In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to God Religious demography of Mozambique

Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 1-Oct-07
The 2007 Annual Megacensus of Religions Worldwide Adherents of All Religions, mid 2007

The Wall Street Journal 20-Sep-07
Episcopal Church Dissidents Seek Authority Overseas Graph of Christian Faiths around the World, 2005

Reuters 6-Aug-07
Preaching Transformation, U.S sect Goes Global Pentecostalism claims global following of 500 million.

The Washington Post 25-Jun-07
Seeking Answers with Field Trips in Faith 7% of the world's Christians--about 150 million--are on the move as pilgrims each year

The New Republic 4-Jun-07
The Believers 70 million Christians have been martyred since beginning of faith

The Economist 5-May-07
Lighting on New Faiths or None More than 80% of Latin Americans are still Catholic but the figure steadily is declining

The New York Times 19-Mar-07
Brazil's Top TV Preachers Land in Hot Water in Miami Brazil has overtaken the U.S. as the country with the largest Pentecostal population

Ottawa Citizen 3-Mar-07
China and the Rise of Faith: How Christianity Builds Democracy World Christian Trends places China as 4th largest Christian country in the world

CBS2-Los Angeles News 17-Feb-07
More Christians Attending Small House Churches House churches won't take over traditional ones but will be around a long time

The New York Times 14-Jan-07
House Afire- 3 Part Series Graphs of Pentecostal Population in NYC, all 50 U.S States, and worldwide

The Economist 23-Dec-06
Christianity Reborn Renewalists make up a quarter of world's population, 30 years ago it was 6%

Languages which have received scripture translations for the first time, as well as new books or major revisions in existing scripture languages, are report annually in the United Bible Societies' Scripture Language Report (UBS, 2006). This report has been coded here for the World Language Classification and is now incorporated into the World Christian Database.

Availability of scripture is a major factor in a People's evangelization (hearing the good news about God directly from God's Word) so results from these additional translations are seen in data changes across the Database.

e.g. Languages with a book of the Bible, or New Testament or a whole Bible published in 2005 or 2006 can be seen by subscribers in this query: "Languages with fresh translations".