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The Christian Finance query shows data added this quarter from the World Bank (as reported in the UN's Human Development Report, 2014) being applied to estimate the total Christian income by continent and globe with a drill-down to the country level.

The simple assumption is that each person's income is the same as each country's Gross National Income per person. Within any one country no assumptions are made as to whether Christians have more or less income than others, but when aggregated to regions and the globe the weighting of many Christians in countries with higher incomes becomes apparent.

The results indicate that the personal income of church members in 2015 is in the order of 42,000 billion dollars.

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The Global Directory of Theological Education Institutions is an online database of more than 7,000 institutions of theological education (church-based theological seminaries, Bible schools, university departments of theology, faculties of religious studies).

This new module allows World Christian Database users to search for institutions or browse though selected listings by using links on the new Theological Education Directory home page. A link to this displays on the main query home page as "Theological Education".

Advanced searches can be carried out from any of the sample queries by adding a combination of search terms for any of the fields in the institution's profile including:

• Denomination/Affiliation
  
• Type of institution
  
• Language of instruction
  
• Town/city, state and country
  
• Region of the main office and the geographical scope of work
  
• Degrees offered
  
• Accrediting body
  
• Narrative
  

The data are a snapshot of the directory at Globethics.net where authorized users can update the details of their own institution.

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