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CHRISTIAN NEWS 30 JANUARY 2000 Is the mantle of Christianity dropping from the United States and Europe? Leaders of most denominations agree that Asia, Africa, and Latin America will become the faith's "centers of gravity" as rapid growth continues there, Cox News Service said. ..."The Gospel is no longer in Western captivity," David Garrison of the Southern Baptist Convention (see link #1 below)'s International Mission Board said. "It's every bit at home in Beijing or Shanghai as in Atlanta or Dallas." ...Statistics bear the observation out. One-third of Roman Catholic cardinals are from developing nations, and Asia and Africa each has more members in the College of Cardinals than does the United States. Anglican bishops from Asia and Africa outnumbered those from the United States at last year's Lambeth Conference, and almost 60% of Protestants and 66% of the world's charismatic and Pentecostal Christians live in Latin America, Cox News said. ...America has become a mission field for some international churches. Korean missionaries are evangelizing America's Korean population, Jung Joo Park, pastor of Hanbit Korean Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, said. "We first received the Gospel through American missionaries. Now the case is reversed." There are about twice the number of Presbyterian churches in Korea as there are in the United States, he said. (Religion Today, 18 January)
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