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Christian nations fought one another in desperate trench warfare.
Stephen Neill was one of the great missionary statesman of the twentieth century. He served as a missionary in India for twenty years, an Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and taught and wrote widely in his field.
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orld Wars pit nominally Christian nations of Europe against each
other.
• Emergence of charismatic Christian sects.
• Rise of the ecumenical movement.
• Revision of the Roman Catholic liturgy.
• Missions reach virtually every region of the world.
• New translation methods put the Bible into the languages of 95%
of mankind, but about 1,500 small tongues, representing 5% of mankind,
lack scriptures.
• More Christians are said to have been martyred in the 20th century
than in all earlier centuries combined.
• Decline of church attendance becomes marked in much of the Western
world.
• Explosive growth of Chinese Christianity.
• Emergence and collapse of powerful atheistic states.
• Crises in Darwinism revive Christian attacks on evolutionary theory
and development of scientific models from a Christian perspective.
• Rise of internet and mass media lead to wide dissemination of
the gospel by new means.
• An overwhelming information explosion tends to bury truth.
1.9 billion "Christians," about 33% of world population
Non-white Christians, especially in China, Africa, and Latin America
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