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Article: REVISITING CHURCH GROWTH IN KOREAN PROTESTANTISM.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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HONG, YOUNG-GI [*]
A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION
The rapid growth of the Korean church
The Korean churches are situated in Asia where only eight percent (262,700,000) out of a population of three billion claim to be Christians (in 1995), and where major traditional religions, e.g. Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism, are prevalent among the people. Asia has the largest population in the world (sixty percent of the total), but the percentage of Christians is the lowest. Considering the general reluctant reception Christianity has in Asia, the growth of the Protestant Korean church has been perceived as striking and exceptional by many leaders and scholars. ...