Almost 5 million Congregations worldwide

The World Christian Encyclopaedia reported 3,157,000 church congregations worldwide in 1995, a number which had grown to 4,851,000 in 2010 according to the Atlas of Global Christianity, published last year. Assuming these two estimates are approximately correct, that’s a growth rate of over 110,000 churches worldwide per year, or almost 10,000 per month! As an unknown number of churches closes every year, the actual number of new churches will be larger than this net figure. This is broken down by continent in the Table.... To read more, click here.

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