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HOH is a proudly
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Religion Outside America Articles about Religion Around the World Only one
person out of every 20 human beings resides in the U.S.A. "The Next Christianity"This
article -- which appeared in The Atlantic Magazine (October 2002) -- is
unmatched in its panoramic sweep of the religious currents extant in the
Christian World. Among other things, did you know that three-quarters of
all baptisms take place in the Third World? Did you know that the official
state religion of Zambia is Christianity? Did you know that Anglican
missionary bishops consecrated by the archbishop of Rwanda are active in
South Carolina and Pennsylvania? Did you know that there are now 400
million Pentecostals in the world, and that the number is expected to rise
to a billion in the next 35 years (which would make them as large a force
as Hinduism and larger than Buddhists)?
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