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Christian nations fought one another in desperate trench warfare.
Stephen Neill was one of the great missionary statesman of the twentieth century. He served as a missionary in India for twenty years, an Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and taught and wrote widely in his field.
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orld Wars pit nominally Christian nations of Europe against each
other.
Emergence of charismatic Christian sects.
Rise of the ecumenical movement.
Revision of the Roman Catholic liturgy.
Missions reach virtually every region of the world.
New translation methods put the Bible into the languages of 95%
of mankind, but about 1,500 small tongues, representing 5% of mankind,
lack scriptures.
More Christians are said to have been martyred in the 20th century
than in all earlier centuries combined.
Decline of church attendance becomes marked in much of the Western
world.
Explosive growth of Chinese Christianity.
Emergence and collapse of powerful atheistic states.
Crises in Darwinism revive Christian attacks on evolutionary theory
and development of scientific models from a Christian perspective.
Rise of internet and mass media lead to wide dissemination of
the gospel by new means.
An overwhelming information explosion tends to bury truth.
1.9 billion "Christians," about 33% of world population
Non-white Christians, especially in China, Africa, and Latin America
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