Updates

Each year approximately 100,000 believers in Christ have lost their lives prematurely, in situations of witness, as a result of human hostility in the first 10 years of this century.

The Current martyr situations (2000-2010) query documents the 16 largest martyr situations from AD 2000 to 2010, extending documentation already published for AD 33 to AD 2000 on the Martyrs home page.

A Summary of all Epochs extends the research originally published in World Christian Trends and furthers "the evidence for the startling conclusion that, over the 20 centuries of the Christian faith, some 70 million Christians have been murdered for that faith and hence are called martyrs."

Every five years the Center for the Study of Global Christianity publicly releases a benchmark for tracking the globe's least evangelized peoples.

The listing, included in this quarter's update, is a definitive statement on the globe’s largest unevangelized peoples. It lists 247 ethnolinguistic peoples each with a population over 1 million and each with less than 50% evangelized in the year 2015.

It shows that almost two thirds of the population of 1.4 billion people in these least evangelized megapeoples have essentially no knowledge of Jesus Christ's life and claims. With one Christian for every 100 people, the 14 million Christians living among them overall are a tiny minority.

In fact, the five least evangelized megapeoples have not a single known Christian amongst 6 million people: the Bakhtiari of Iran; the Beja (Beni-Amer) of Sudan; the Dimili Kurd (Southern Zaza) of Turkey; the Southern Luri (Lori) of Iran; and the Laki (Leki, Alaki) also of Iran.

The full list can be seen from the World A Megapeoples link on the People's home page. As with all queries, it is immediately sortable by any of the fields displayed, and subscribers can add fields or change criteria to customize the listing.