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With Christmas fast approaching, the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion & Public Life published a new comprehensive demographic report on the size and distribution of the world\u2019s Christian population. The study finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages in more than 200 countries around the world, representing nearly a third of the estimated 6.9 billion 2010 global population. Christians are so geographically widespread that no single continent or region can indisputably claim to be the center of global Christianity.<\/p>\n

In 1910, two-thirds of the world\u2019s Christians lived in Europe (according to historical data from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts). Today, the Pew study finds, only about a quarter of all Christians (26 percent) live in Europe (26 percent). A plurality \u2014 more than a third (37 percent) \u2014 now reside in the Americas. About one in every four Christians (24 percent) lives in sub-Saharan Africa and about one-in-eight (13 percent) is found in Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n

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With Christmas fast approaching, the Pew Research Center\u2019s Forum on Religion & Public Life published a new comprehensive demographic report on the size and distribution of the world\u2019s Christian population. 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