Updates

Renewal in the Holy Spirit

Two new fields for each denomination show the percentage and total number of affiliated Christians participating in the Renewal in the Holy Spirit in 2010.

Denominational data, which have always been used to calculate the WCD's country totals for renewalists, are shown here by denomination for the first time. Pentecostal denominations are, by definition, 100% Renewalist, as are many Independent denominations, while percentages have been applied for the remaining Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican traditions.

The fields are available for adding to any denominations based query, or see the new section "Renewal by Denomination" on the Denominations home page.

Four major revisions are included in the WCD this quarter.

1. WCD has been updated to reflect the latest population revisions from the United Nations.

The number of religionists in every country of the world are reconciled with each biennial revision of the population data produced by the United Nations population division.

This update includes the latest re-reconciliation of statistics on all Christian denominations and world religions including Peoples and Provinces.

2. The world's provinces have been updated with many hundreds of changes to province names and borders, and the resulting changes in the Christian situation.

3. The Republic of South Sudan is added as the world's latest country, with independence from July 9th.

4. Preliminary results from a year-long study into the demographics of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Neo-Charismatic renewal of the Church can now be seen in country data, and over coming quarters will be shown by denomination.