Interesting Stuff From Twitter

I don't Twitter yet and for as tech savvy as I am, I most ignore Twitter — until this week.  Brad recently linked to AtlasGC (AtlasGC) on Twitter — which is the Atlas for Global Christianity, apparently an interesting compendium of stats.  Here is some of what they Twittered so far: In Yemen, 10% of the population listens to Christian radio. 8:59 AM Mar 9th via Sendible In 2010 the world’s 4,000 Christian radio and television stations reach 510 million persons monthly with Christian programming. 8:59 AM Mar 8th via Sendible Since its origin in 1921, Christian broadcasting has reached more people per hour than any other variety of evangelism. 8:59 AM Mar 7th via Sendible Only 0.3% of total Christian expenditure is actually directed towards unevangelised non-Christians. 8:59 AM Mar 6th via Sendible Much of the money given for foreign missions is spent on work among Christians. 9:00 AM Mar 5th via Sendible Annual embezzlement from Christian ministries of $35 billion exceeds the global Church’s foreign mission expenditures of $32 billion. 8:59 AM Mar 4th via Sendible Salaries and education together claim another 29% of total church and parachurch expenditures. 9:00 AM Mar 3rd via Sendible Administration accounts for 29% of all church and parachurch expenditures. 8:59 AM Mar 2nd via Sendible Almost 97% of church and parachurch income is used by Christians for their own needs. 8:59 AM Mar 1st via Sendible In 1910 nearly 90% of all Christian income was denominational. In 2010 parachurch agencies receive some 64% of all Christian income. 8:59 AM Feb 28th via Sendible Nearly half of all Church income is received by the Roman Catholic tradition, which has the most adherents. 8:59 AM Feb 27th via Sendible In the 1960s Roman Catholic missionary endeavours were profoundly challenged by the Second Vatican Council (1962–5). 8:59 AM Feb 26th via Sendible The Philippines today is about 90% Christian (majority Roman Catholics) as a result of Spanish missions since the 16th century. 8:59 AM Feb 25th via Sendible The Roman Catholic Church exerts an important influence on many aspects of Polish life, and church attendance levels are high. 8:59 AM Feb 24th via Sendible The Charismatic movement within the Catholic Church claims over 20% of all Catholics in South America, now the leading region in the world. 8:59 AM Feb 23rd via Sendible Catholicism in Egypt is the most liturgically diverse of any country in the world. 8:59 AM Feb 22nd via Sendible Approximately half of the world’s Christians were Catholics at the beginning of the 21st century, and half of those were in the Americas. 8:59 AM Feb 21st via Sendible Non-Christians in Asia are more isolated from Christians than in any other continent in the world. 8:59 AM Feb 20th via Sendible Almost half of all Asian languages are less than 2% Christian. 8:59 AM Feb 19th via Sendible And there is a plethora many that is absolutely fascinating.  So the Atlas GC is my first Twitter feed that I actually follow.