"…..Indonesia, the scene of organized Muslim attacks against Christians since 1998, the overall church may have grown to 20 million people- far above the official estimate of 13 to 15 million." "Latin America's active evangelical contingent now numbers 60 million people,
"Mean- while, early in the 1990s, the Quechua people of Bolivia were said to be largely unreached with the gospel. Today the evangelical movement among them numbers more than 50,000."
"In China, the church has multiplied from about 5 million when the communists took power in 1949 to anywhere from 30 to 60 million today; revival continues despite opposition in Henan province." "More than 200,000 people in Chad made public decisions for Christ in outreaches between 1993 and 1998. Ethiopia, with large numbers of nominally Orthodox Christians and Muslims, has seen its evangelical community increase from .08 percent of the population in 1962 to 15.5 percent in 1998.
Sudan, site of some of the worst persecution of Christians on earth, has seen perhaps the creation of a million more Bible-believing Christians in the south since 1982."
North Africa Church Growing
"Across North Africa, in fact, the church, basically stamped out for over a millennium, is being resurrected. Arab World Ministries reports stunning growth in the church among Muslim populations. Two decades ago in Mauritania, there were no known believers or church groups. In 1999 there were around 100 Christians in 4 or 5 groups."
"Morocco has gone from 300 believers in 8 to 10 groups two decades ago to 900 in 20 to 25."
"Algeria, site of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people, has seen the church grow from 1,200 believers in 12 to 18 church groups to 12,000 Christians in 60 to 80 groups.
"Tunisia has grown from 30 believers in two or three groups to 150 in five or six.
"Even Libya, with no believers or groups 20 years ago, now has 8 to 10 evangelical believers."
(Stan Guthrie, Missions in The Third Millennium, pg xviii. 2000, paternoster Press, )
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