Updates

A chronology of world Christianity: extended

The chronology has now been extended back in time to cover the Old Testament period from BC 3000 to the birth of Christ. The Chronology home page now shows 8,200 significant Christian and religious events from BC 3000 through to AD 2000.

Search for topics of interest by keyword or by year, or just browse through the centuries.

Chronology entries can also be found and viewed by topic through the "search" mechanism. Enter a term as usual into the seach box and follow the returned Chronology references.

Also this quarter, preliminary results from a major review of pentecostal and charismatic denominations are incorporated for many hundred denominations. Full results for the global renewal movement will follow in coming months.

As people groups change so does the country’s religious makeup.

Changes to the proportion of particular ethnic or language groups within a country, through migration or through varying birth rates and rates of death, all contribute, people-group by people-group, to changes in the religious makeup of a country.

Quite apart from tracking the conversion of individuals to different religions and hence changing religious affiliation within a people group, these demographic changes of peoples between countries are constantly under review in the WCD research process.

This quarter the results of primarly people-group oriented reseach in countries up to the letter ‘J’ have led to widespread and often subtle edits in countries all over the world.

The research process continues.