Twenty-seven percent of all Christians are Pentecostal and charismatic. In terms of “distinct denomination families,” the Anglican denomination stood at 11 percent, followed by Lutheran at 10 percent and Baptist at 9 percent.

An estimated one-third of the world’s 6.9 billion people in 2010 were Christians who lived around the globe, making Christianity a global faith.

While the Americas and Europe are still “home to a majority of the world’s Christians,” Christianity “has grown enormously in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region,” according to a report produced by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The report is titled Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population.

The report said:

● In 1910, 93 percent of Christians lived in Europe (66.3 percent) and the Americas (27 percent). In 2010, 63 percent lived there.

● In 1910, 6 percent of Christians lived in the Asia-Pacific region and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2010, 37 percent live there.

● In 1910, only 9 percent of the sub-Saharan population was Christian. In 2010, 63 percent is Christian.

The Christian traditions are theologically diverse and fall broadly along these lines: 50 percent are Catholic, compared to 37 percent who are Protestant and 12 percent who are Orthodox.
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