Encouraging trends of global Christianity
Genesis (4000 - 2000 BC)
4,000 (BC) Adam and Eve
Cain, Abel, Seth
Enosh, Kenan, Jared, Mahelel, Enoch
Methuselah, Lamech
of Goshen and Sinai - Put)
Noah, Lapheth, Shem Ham (Before 3000 BC)
[Japheth][Ham][Shem] [Japhethites, Hamites, Semites] [Nephilim - Heroes of Old]
[Arphaxad] [Shem]
[Shelah] [Shem]
[Eber] [Shem]
[Peleg] [Shem]
[Reu] [Shem]
[Serug] [Shem]
[Nahor] [Shem]
Canaan (Haran-Canaan) 261 Years - 2166-1885(BC)
[9 gen] [Terah] [Abraham]
[Abraham - Ur]
Ur: Ur of Chaldees , City of Mesopotamia
[Job - Uz]
Uz: Adjacent to Midian
Historical Perspective - History (2000-1000 BC)
2166-1885(BC) - Canaan (Haran-Canaan) 261 Years
2000 years ago (BC) - Abraham, Sarah Grouping
2000-1500 years ago (BC) - Jacob - 12 Tribes
1450 years ago (BC) - Moses - First Census
1445 years ago (BC) – Moses – Ten Commandments
1407 years ago (BC) - Moses, Second Census - Remember God, Principles for Godly living
1406 years ago (BC) Joshua
1375 years ago (BC) Judges
Historical Perspective - History (1000-0 BC)
1050 years ago (BC) (K) Saul
1004 years ago (BC) - Rule of David - Early Kingdoms
(K) David – 1000 years ago (BC)
(K) Solomon – 970-928 years ago (BC)
Temple completes – 959 years ago (BC)
Rule of Solomon - Early Kingdoms
(S) Rehoboam - Judah – 930 years ago (BC)
(N) Jeroboam – Israel – 930 years ago (BC)
(S) Ahaziah – 841 years ago (BC)
(N) Jehu – 841 years ago (BC)
(N) Joram – 852 years ago (BC)
(S) Jehoram – 853 years ago (BC)
(N Ahaziah – 853 years ago (BC)
(N) Ahab – King of Israel – 874 years ago (BC)
(S) Jehoshaphat – King of Judah – 872 years ago (BC)
Elijah – Prophet Begins ministry 875 years ago (BC)
Elisha – Prophet (double portion of Elijah) Begins ministry – 848 years ago (BC)
Elisha the Prophet — The Healing of Naaman (2 Kings 5:1-27)
(S) Joash – 835 years ago (BC)
(N) Jehoahaz – 814 years ago (BC)
Azariah – 792 years ago (BC)
Amaziah – 796 years ago (BC)
Jeroboam II – 793 years ago (BC)
Jonah – God’s message is salvation for all peoples – 793 years ago (BC)
(N) Jehoash – 798 years ago (BC)
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - 7 Wonders
571 years ago (BC) - Prophet: Ezekiel
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job - Governor of Judah, rebuild wall
538 years ago (BC) - King Cyrus allows Jews to return to Jerusalem
520 years ago (BC) - Haggai ministered to Zerubbabel
520 years ago (BC)- Zechariah ministered to Zerubbabel
520 years ago (BC) - Zerubbabel - Led the first group of Jewish exiles back to Jerusalem from Babylon
255 years ago (BC) – Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek and called the Septugint
167 (BC) – Seleucid ruler, Antiochus IV – looted the Temple
167-166 (BC) - Mattathias Hasmoneas triggered the Maccabean rebellion the the village of Modein (20 miles from Jerusalem)
165 years ago (BC) - Judas Maccabeus begins a revolt again Antiochus IV, because the Temple of Jerusalem was plundered
163 – Judas Maccabeus besieging Akra in Jerusalem in included 100,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry and 32, war elephants. Hanukkah
Maccabees Restored the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. After decisively routing the Greeks from the Land, Judah led his band of battle-hardened men to Jerusalem to restore the Holy Temple to its sacred use, which the Greeks had discontinued. They were met by a sorry sight: broken walls, overgrown courtyards, and pagan idols in God’s home. On the 25th day of Kislev (the first day of Chanukah), they rededicated the Temple, lit the menorah, offered the showbread, and resumed regular worship. Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, celebrates the Maccabean Revolt (167-160 BCE), and the narrative that Jewish rebel Judas Maccabeus vanquished the evil Greek emperor Antiochus and rededicated the Temple, at which the miracle of the oil occurred.
161 – Bacchide set up a base at Berroth
156 – Jonathan youngest of Mattathias son had a well trained force establish at Bethbasi near the main north south route to Jerusalem
142 (BC) – Judea became politically independent
142 (BC) Simon (High Priest)
Joppa (Judea)
Gazara (Judea)
Jerusalem (Judea)
Qumran (Judea)
Kedron (Judea)
Dok (Judea)
134 (BC) John Hyrcanus I (High Priest)
Jamnia (Judea)
Azotus (Idumea – South of Judea)
Medeba (Judea)
Shechem (Samaria – North of Judea)
Samaria (Samaria)
Ptolemias (Galilee)
Gaza (Idumea)
Libba (Idumea)
Zoar (Idumea)
Pella (Samaria)
Hippus (Galilee)
Philoteria (Galilee)
Gimala (Galilee)
Masada (Idumea)
Machaerus (Idumea)
Hyracania (Judea)
Historical Perspective (1st and 10th Century)
The Early Church (0-100 ), (New Testament)
33 - Jesus Christ - Gospels and Disciples
Matthew – disciple, clarified for Jewish audience – Matthew (Levi), Mark 2:14
Mark – John Mark, wrote Mark, traveling companion
Luke – Luke, Acts (Doctor)
John – island of Patmos – John, Revelations
St. Peter (64 ) – pope - recognized leader of inner three – 1,2 Peter, Matthew 16:18
Thaddeus – disciple also known as Jude son of James, Matthew 10:3
James – disciple, inner 3: Peter and John, Mark 10:35-37
James – brother of Jesus, wrote James, Acts 1:13
Andrew- disciple brother of Peter, Matthew 4:18-20
Simon – Simon the Zealot, Zealous for Jewish Law – Acts 1:13
Bartholomew – disciple, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew 10:2, John 2:27-28
Thomas – disciple, loyal and honest – Acts 1:13
Philip – 3 greatest missionaries pragmatic, sensible 2 Timothy 4:11
John the Baptist – tribe of Levi, Moses, Aaron, disciples went with Jesus
30 - Jesus and the cross
Beginnings of Christianity
32 - Apostles: Paul, Timothy, Barnabas, John, Mattais, Joseph (Justus), Stephen
Paul – Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
Jesus commanded his disciples not to leave Jerusalem until they had been endued with the power from the Holy Spirit. First Jerusalem and from there, fanning out in every growing cities all the way to the ends of the earth. Barnabas and Paul were sent to take the gospel to cities in the remote parts of the earth. One of the cities is Ephesus. The disciples in Jerusalem , a small band of 12 men went from the synagogue to the temple of Artemis, facing a thriving metropolis, proponents for Christianity to the city and the region.
During Paul's visit he baptized 12 men and introduced them to the Holy Spirit. Two years later the entire city of Ephesus heard the gospel, resulting in multitudes of converts (Acts 19:11-20).
Thessalonians, Titus, Philemon
Timothy – 1, 2 Timothy
Barnabas – Hebrews: Paul, Luke, Barnabas, Philip, Apollo
50-62 - The epistles were written about Jesus and the early followers
Acts, Early Church, Holy Spirit
North of Jerusalem east of Mediterranean Sea (Samaria)
66 - 7 years ago – Zealots in Judea rebel against Rome
66-78 – St. Linus (pope)
68 years ago – Qumran community hid their library of Bible manuscripts in a cave by the Dead Sea (discovered in 1948)
70 to 73 years ago - Masada, an ancient Hebrew fortress built on a mountaintop located southeast of Jerusalem. The Jewish Zealots, who protested Roman rule over Judea, staged their last stand against the Romans at Masada
70-100 – First four books of the New Testament – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are written
79 – St. Anacletus (Cletus)
90 - Jewish historian Flavius Josephus
91 – St. Clement I
100 AD - Christianity in Middle East 5%
100 - John the apostle – 1,2,3 John – John writes Revelations
100 – St. Evaristus
109 – St. Alexander I
116 – St. Sixtus I
125 – St. Telesphorus
135 CE - Jerusalem Rebuilt as a Roman City
136 – St. Hyginus
142 – St. Pius I
155 – St. Anitcetus
165 - Jews recapture Temple. Judas Maccabee’s family Hasmoneans established independent state for 80 years
166 – St. Soter
174 – St. Eleutherius
180 - Rotary fan (China)
189 – St. Victor I
198 – St. Zephyrinus
200 – Ptolemy – Greek geographer
217 – St. Callistus
217 – St. Hippolytus
222 – St. Urban I
235 – St. Pontian
236 – St. Anterus
250 – St. Fabian
253 – St. Cornelius
258 – St. Lucius I
274 – St. Stephen I
258 – St. Sixtus II
268 – St. Dionysus
274 – St. Felix I
283 – St. Eutychian
296 – St. Gaius
300 – Aristotle – Earth is round (circumference 25,000, diameter 8,000)
304 – St. Marcellinus
306 – St. Marcellus I
310 – St. Eusebius
313 – Emperor Constantine gave Edit of Milan granting freedom of worship to Christians
314 – St. Miltiades
330 – Constantinople founded
335 – St. Silvester I
335 CE - Church of the Holy Sepulchre Built
336 – St. Mark
352 – St. Julius I
365 – St. Felix II
366 – St. Liberius
367 – St. Ursinus
379 - Italy - Rule of Emperor Theodius the Great
384 – St. Damasus I
391 - Italy - Christianity in Rome, Augustine, Christian Theology
399 - St. Siricius
400 AD - Christianity in Middle East 50%
400 – Christian Churches built in Rome, Jerusalem, Constantinople
401 – St. Anastasius I
410 - Fall of the Roman Empire
417 – St. Innocent I
418 – St. Zosimus
422 – St. Boniface
419 – St. Eulalius
432 – St. Celestine I
432 - St Patrick mission to Ireland
440 – St. Sixtus III
451 – Council of Chaceldon
461 – St. Leo I
468 – St. Hillary
483 – St. Simplicius
492 – St. Felix III
496 – St. Gelasius I
498 - Baptism of Clovis I
498 – St. Anastasius II
514 – St. Symmachus
501 – St. Lawrence
507 – France conversion of Clovis to Catholicism
523 – St. Hormisdas
526 – St. John I
527 – Emperor Justinian, Romans rule of East and West
530 - St. Felix IV
532 – St. Boniface II
532 – St Sophia (City), Constantinople
530 – St. Dioscorus
535 – St. John II
536 – St. Agapitus I
537 – St. Silverius
555 – St. Vigilius
560 – Irish missions to continent
561 – St. Pelagius I
563 – St Columba in Iona
568-774 - Lomboards in Italy
574 – St. John III
579 – St. Benedict I
580 - Iron chain suspension bridge
590 – St. Pelagius II
597 – Roman mission to England
600 - Zero - India, Arabic
604 – St. Gregory I
606 – St. Sabinian
610-641 - Heraclius of Byzantium
615 – St. Boniface III
618 – St. Boniface IV
625 – St. Deusdedit I
638 – St. Honorius I
640 – St. Severinus
642 – St. John IV
649 – St. Theodore I
649 - Pope Martin
655 - Pope Eugene
657 - Pope Vitalian
672 - Pope Adeodatus
676 - Pope Donus
678 - Pope Agatho
682 - Pope Leo
684 - Pope Benedict
685 - Pope John
686 - Pope Conon
687 - Pope Sergius
701 - Pope John
705 - Pope John
708 - Pope Sisinnius
708 - Pope Constantine
715 - Pope Gregory
731 - Pope Gregory
741 - Pope Zachary
752 - Pope Stephen
757 - Pope Paul
767 - Pope Stephen
772 - Pope Adrian
795 - Pope Leo
816 - Pope Stephen
817 - Pope Paschal
824 - Pope Eugene
827 - Pope Valentine
827 - Pope Gregory
844 - Pope Sergius
847 - Pope Leo
855 - Pope Benedict
858 - Pope Nicholas
867 - Pope Adrian
882 - Pope John
882 - Pope Marinus
884 - Pope Adrian
885 - Pope Stephen
891 - Pope Formosus
896 - Pope Boniface
896 - Pope Stephen
897 - Pope Romanus
897 - Pope Theodore
898 - Pope John
900 - Pope Benedict
903 - Pope Leo
904 - Pope Sergius
911 - Pope Anastasius
913 - Pope Lando
914 - Pope John
928 - Pope Leo
929 - Pope Stephen
931 - Pope John
936 - Pope Leo
939 - Pope Stephen
942 - Pope Marinus
946 - Pope Agapetus
955 - Pope John
963 - Pope Leo
964 - Pope Benedict
965 - Pope John
973 - Pope Benedict
974 - Pope Benedict
983 - Pope John
985 - Pope John
996 - Pope Gregory
999 - Pope Sylvester
Historical Perspective (11st and 12th Century)
Christian Middle Ages
Jerusalem, Church of Holy Sepulcher
Sistine Chapel
England, Norway
700 AD - Christianity in Middle East 30%
1000 AD - Christianity in Middle East 20%
1003 - Pope John
1009 - Pope Sergius
1012 - Pope Benedict
1024 - Pope John
1032 - Pope Benedict
1046 - Pope Sylvester
1047 - Pope Benedict
1048 - Pope Damasus
1049 - Pope Leo
1054 – Catholic Pope Leo IX – splits and Roman Catholic Pope and Eastern Orthodox Pope – patriarch of Constantinople
1055 - Pope Victor
1056 - Henry IV
1057 - Pope Stephen
1058 - Pope Nicholas
1061 - Pope Alexander
1066 - William in England
1073 - Pope Gregory
1080 – Tower of London
1086 - Pope Victor
1088 - Pope Urban
1095 – First Crusade by Pope Urban II
1099 - Pope Pascal
1099 - First Crusaders Capture Jerusalem
1118 - Pope Gelasius
1119 - Pope Callistus
1124 - Pope Honorius
1130 - Pope Innocent
1143 - Pope Celestine
1144 - Pope Lucius
1145 - Pope Blessed Eugene
1145 – Second Crusade
1153 - Pope Anastasius
1154 - Pope Adrian
1159 - Pope Alexander
1179 – Lateran Council III
1181 - Pope Lucius
1185 - Pope Urban
1187 - Saladin Captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1187 - Pope Gregory
1187 - Pope Clement
1189 – Third Crusade King Richard I “Lion heart” recaptured coastal towns and forts
1191 - Pope Celestine
1194 – Chartres Cathedral built
1198 - Pope Innocent
1209 – Franciscan order approved
1212 – King Frederick II of Sicily
1215 – England: Magna Carta - King John
1215 – Paris university receives first statues
1216 - Pope Honorius
1224-74 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher and theologian
1226 – Louis IX
1227 - Pope Gregory
1228 - 6th Crusade in Jerusalem
1229-1244 - Crusaders Briefly Recapture Jerusalem Two Times
1241 - Pope Celestine
1243 - Pope Innocent
1248 – Crusade of 1248 led by Louis IX
Historical Perspective (13th, and 14th, Century)
1254 - Pope Alexander
1261 - Pope Urban
1265 - Pope Clement
1269 - Westminster Abbey built
1271 - Pope Gregory
1276 - Pope Innocent
1276 - Pope Adrian
1276 - Pope John
1277 - Pope Nicholas
1281 - Pope Martin
1285 - Pope Honorius
1288 - Pope Nicholas
1294 - Pope Celestine
1294 - Pope Boniface
Late Middle Ages, Kingdoms, Renaissance, Baroque (13th, 14th Century)
1303 - Pope Benedict
1305 - Pope Clement
1309 – The Roman Catholic papacy is in Avigonon, France
1316 - Pope John
1334 - Pope Benedict
1342 - Pope Clement
1352 - Pope Innocent
1362 - Pope Urban
1370 - Pope Gregory
1345 - Notre Dame Cathedral built
1375 - The Renaissance - A new view of humanity
1378 - Pope Urban
1380 - John Wycliffe with his plans for a translation of the English Bible.
1389 - Pope Boniface
Israeli Civilization - Ashkenazim – Jewish from Central, Germany, and Eastern Europe
Israeli Civilization - Ashkenazic Jews immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union
Israeli Civilization - Sephardim – Spain
1404 - Pope Innocent
1406 - Pope Gregory
1415 – Council of Constance
1417 - Pope Martin
1419 - Henry the Navigator begins a period of African explorations
1431 - Pope Eugene
1431 – Joan of Arc
1447 - Pope Nicholas
1450 - Printing press with movable type - Johann Gutenberg, 1454 - The first printing press. Before only a few thousand handwritten texts existed across Europe. Inspired by the growing demand for lower cost books, Johannes Gutenberg, Gutenburg press
1453 - Hundred Year War ends
1455 - Pope Callistus
1458 - Pope Pius
1464 - Pope Paul
1471 - Pope Sixtus
1484 - Pope Innocent
1492 - Christopher Columbus was born in Italy, and commissioned from Spain to find America
1492 - Pope Alexander
Historical Perspective (15th and 16th Century)
Reformation - New World, Discovery, Exploration (15th, 16th Century) - Explorers
1500 - Christianity in Middle East 10%
1500 - The Reformation Shatters Religious Unity
1500 - The Age of Exploration
1500 - Colonialism - Legacy of the Explorers
1503 - Pope Pius
1503 - Pope Julius
1507 - First world map of America is produced
1509 – John Calvin, leader of Protestants in France
1513 - Pope Leo
1517 - Ottoman Empire Captures Jerusalem
1517 - Early Hebrew Bible
1517 - Martin Luther's 95 Thesis
1519 - Magellan's expedition – circumnavigation
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan brought Catholic priests and performed the first baptisms in the Philippines. They arrived in Cebu with the expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi to begin the formal Christianization of the islands.
1522 - Pope Adrian
1523 - Pope Clement
1534 - King Henry VII founds Church of England
1534 - John Calvin begins Reformation
1534 - Pope Paul
1545 - Council of Trent - Catholic Counter-Reformation
1549 – The first Christian movement to Japan
1550 - Pope Julius
1555 - Pope Marcellus
1555 - Pope Paul
1559 - Pope Pius
1560 - John Knox setup Church of Scotland
1565 - The first official Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Philippines were Spanish Augustinian friars led by Father Andrés de Urdaneta
1566 - Pope Pius
1572 - Pope Gregory
1582: Julian Calendar -> Gregorian Calendar (Pope Gregory)
1582: Jesuit Matte Ricci is the first missionary to be sent to China
1585 - Pope Sixtus
1590 - Pope Urban
1590 - Pope Gregory
1591 - Pope Innocent
1592 - Pope Clement
Historical Perspective (17th and 18th Century)
Age of Enlightenment / Encyclopedia / Age of Revolution (17th, 18th Century)
1604 - King James Bible
1605 - Pope Leo
1605 - Pope Paul
1621 - Pope Gregory
1623 - Pope Urban
1644 - Pope Innocent
1649 – Terra Australis – European map of the world
1650 - Age of Enlightenment - Theater - The World as a Stage
1655 - Pope Alexander
1667 - Pope Clement
1670 - Pope Clement
1676 - Pope Blessed Innocent
1681 - John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
1689 - Pope Alexander
1691 - Pope Innocent
1700 - Pope Clement
1703 – John Wesley, English founder of the Methodist Church
1721 - Pope Innocent
1724 - Pope Benedict
1730 - Pope Clement
1730 - Great Awakening in Colonial America
1740 - Pope Benedict
1756: The Vatican Museum, Rome
1758 - Pope Clement
1760 - John Wesley and Methodists in America
1769 - Pope Clement
1775 - Pope Pius
1783 Catholicism in Korea: Yi Seung-hun was sent to Beijing where he was baptism and established the first Korean Catholic church. Christianity in Korea
1793 – The Louvre Museum, Paris
Historical Perspective (18th and 19th Century)
Continental America - Industrial Revolution/ Musical Romanticism (18th century, 19th Century)
1800 - Pope Pius
1823 - Pope Leo
1829 - Pope Pius
1831 - Pope Gregory
1846 - Pope Pius
1870 - Christmas US federal holiday
1878 - Pope Leo
1884 - Protestantism in Korea: Horace Allen, Horace G. Underwood, an American Presbyterian missionary and a Methodist Episcopal, Henry G. Appenzeller from the United States.
1886 - Statue of Liberty
1886 - Dwight L Moody founded the Moody Bible Institute
1889 - Matrix of Liberty Monument
Historical Perspective (20st and 21st Century)
The Mechanical Age, The Digital Age, Modern Age (20th Century)
1900 AD - Christianity in Middle East 13%
1900 - 9 million African Christians
1900 - 28 million Asian Christians
1900 - 600 million Christians world wide
1903 - Pope Pius
1905 - Albert Einstein published e=mc2
1910 - Completion of the first Korean Bible
1914 - WWI - League of Nations
1914 - Pope Benedict
1917 - British Capture Jerusalem in World War I
1919 - 1939 - The developing Jewish community (Yishuv) about 35,000 came between 1919 and 1923, mainly from Russia.
1920 - League of Nations - 14 Points - 48 countries had joined
1922 - Pope Pius
1924 - Another 60,000 Jews, primarily from Poland, arrived between 1924 and 1932
1924 - Oswald Chambers published My Utmost for His Highest
1928 - WWI - League of Nations
1929 - Jews and Arabs in Palestine
1931 - Christ the Redeemer Statue
1931 - Rockefeller Christmas Tree
1945 - Yalta Conference- World War II ends
1946 - League of Nations replaces by United Nations
1947 - Separate Jewish and Arab States
1947 - Dead Sea Scrolls fill in gaps in biblical history
1948 - Independent Israel Jewish state declared
1948 - UN Human Rights - Declaration of Human Rights
1939-1945 - WWII - United Nations
1939 - Pope Pius
1949 - President Chaim Weizmann (Israel - 1949) President of the World Zionist Organization (1920)
1953 - Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
1954 - Prime Minister Moshe Sharett (Israel 1954-1955)
1955 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel - 1955-1963)
1955 - Jonas Salk - polio vaccine
1958 - Pope John
1959 - Israel drip irrigation
1960 - Theodore Maiman - Laser
1963 - Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (Israel 1963-1969)
1963 - Pope Paul
1963 to 1965: Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin excavated Masada, an ancient Hebrew fortress built on a mountaintop located southeast of Jerusalem. The Jewish Zealots, who protested Roman rule over Judea, staged their last stand against the Romans at Masada from ad 70 to 73.
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1967 - Israel Victory - Six Day War
1969 - Prime Minister Golda Meir (Israel - 1969-1974)
1971 - New American Standard Bible
1974 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel - 1974)
1977 - Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel - 1977-1983)
1978 - Pope John Paul I, II
1978 - New International Version Bible
1979 - Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 - Camp David Accords
1980 - (Jerusalem Zion, Israel) Old City of David, Yigal Shiloh uncovered an Iron Age palace of the 10th century (BC), a major building of the era of David and Solomon (Near city of David, Solomon Temple)
1981 - Super-book Original Series
1983 - Billy Graham award Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan
1983 - Israel Space Agency
1986 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (Israel - 1986- 1992)
1988 - Shavit rocket launched
1988 - PC Study Digital Bible
1989 - Quick-verse Digital Bible
1989 - New Revised Standard Bible
1990 - Shavit rocket launched
1990 - Henry Blackaby published Experiencing God
1992 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel - 1992-1995) 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace
1993 - Oslo Accords
1993 - Holocaust Museum
1995 - Prime Minister Shimon Peres (Israel - 1995-1996)
1995 - Shavit rocket launched
1996 - Billy Graham awarded Congressional Gold Medal
1996 - New Living Translation Bible
1998 - Larry Page and Sergei Brin early Google technology
1999 - Prime Minister Ehud Barak (Israel - 1999-2001)
2000 - Christianity in Middle East 9%
2000 - 380 million African Christians
2001 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (Israel - 2001-2006)
2001 - English Standard Version Bible
2003 - US takes down Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq
2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard University)
2005 - Pope Benedict
2005 - Ashkelon desalination plant
2005 - Google buys YouTube
2006 - Palmachim desalination plant
2006 - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Israel - 2006-2009)
2009 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel - 2009)
2009 - Hadera desalination plant
2009 - Glo Bible Software
2010 - Christianity in Middle East 5%
2011 - Super-book New Series
2011 - Israel Iron Dome
2011 - Toppled Muammar Gaddafi in Libya
2011 - US takes down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
2013 - Pope Francis
2013 - Sorek desalination plant
2016 - King-stone Bible - Graphic Novel Bible
2017 - The Museum of the Bible
2018 - US Embassy in Jerusalem
2020 - Abraham accords
2020 - Compassion reaches $1 billion
2021 - Goodwill reaches $1 billion
2021 - Giving USA 2021: In a year of unprecedented events and challenges, charitable giving reached a record $471.44 billion
2022 - 2.56 billion people will identify as a Christian by the middle of 2022.
2022 - Africa has 631 million Christians currently reside in Africa and they make up 45 percent of the population.
2022 - Latin America is, estimated to have 601 million Christians, they make up the majority of the continent at 92 percent.
2022 - Europe at 571 million, making up 77 percent of the population.
2022 - Asia has 383 million Christians in Asia. Philippines are at 90 percent Christian.
2022 - North America is fifth with 277 million Christians who make up 76 percent of the continent's population.
2022 - Oceania has 29 million Christians, which accounts for 71 percent of the people living there.
2023 - World Vision reaches $1 billion
2023 - October 7th - Israel vs Hamas
2024 - Total estimated charitable giving in the U.S. reached $557.16 billion in 2024.
2025 - Pope Leo
2025 - Museum of Christian and Gospel Music
2025 - Israel operation Rising Lion
2025 - US operation Midnight Hammer
2025 - 734 million African Christians
2025 - YouVersion Bible downloaded 1 billion times
2025 - Total estimated charitable giving in the U.S. reached $617 billion in 2025.
2025 - Israel Iron Beam
2026 - The total equity market capitalization of all companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is approximately NIS 2.4 trillion (roughly $600 billion USD to $800 billion USD depending on exchange rates).
2026 - Jewish Calendar Year 5786 Rosh Hashanah
2025 - Top 10 Christian Countries:
1 U.S. 219M 63.0%
2 Brazil 169M 79.5%
3 Mexico 118M 89.2%
4 Nigeria 109M 45.9%
5 DRC 105M 93.1%
6 Philippines 100M 85.3%
7 Ethiopia 91M 67.3%
8 China 72M 5.1%
9 South Africa 56M 86.0%
10 Kenya 49M 85.5%
Several countries around the world with a population that is 90% or more Christian. Many of these are located in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania.
Vatican City: 100% Christian
Romania: ~99% Christian
Moldova: ~99.6% Christian
Lesotho: ~90% Christian
East Timor: ~97% Christian
Paraguay: ~96% Christian
Papua New Guinea: ~97% Christian
Philippines: ~ 91.5% Christian
Armenian: ~92.6% Christian
Micronesia: ~98.7 Christian
Zambia: ~95% Christian
Greece: ~93% Christian
Malta: ~92% Christian
Tonga: ~98.9% Christian
Armenia: ~98.5% Christian
Namibia: ~97.6% Christian
Marshall Islands: ~97.5% Christian
Moldova: ~97.5% Christian
Solomon Islands: ~97.5% Christian
Samoa : ~97.3% Christian
Kiribati: ~97.0% Christian
Lesotho: ~96.8% Christian
Grenada: ~96.6% Christian
Guatemala: ~95.2% Christian
Barbados: ~95.2% Christian
Mexico : ~95.0% Christian
Iceland : ~95.0% Christian
Portugal: ~94.7% Christian
St. Kitts and Nevis: ~94.6% Christian
Dominica: ~94.4% Christian
Poland: ~94.3% Christian
Aruba: ~94.2% Christian
Guam: ~94.2% Christian
Burundi: ~94.1% Christian
Ecuador: ~94.1% Christian
Ireland: ~94.1% Christian
Seychelles: ~94.0% Christian
Bolivia: ~93.9% Christian
Montenegro: ~93.8% Christian
Serbia: ~93.5% Christian
Croatia: ~93.4% Christian
Rwanda: ~93.4% Christian
Vanuatu: ~93.3% Christian
Antigua and Barbuda: ~93.0% Christian
Panama: ~93.0% Christian
Colombia: ~92.5% Christian
Turks and Caicos Islands: ~92.1% Christian
Liechtenstein: ~91.9% Christian
San Marino: ~91.6% Christian
St. Lucia: ~91.1% Christian
Costa Rica: ~90.9% Christian
Several countries around the world with a population that is 80% or more Christian.
Brazil: ~80-91% Christian
Republic of the Congo: ~85.9% Christian
Ethiopia: ~85% Christian
Italy: ~83% Christian
Angola: ~88.2% Christian
El Salvador: ~88.2% Christian
Dominican Republic: ~88.9% Christian
Gibraltar: ~88.8% Christian
Equatorial Guinea: ~88.7% Christian
St. Vincent and the Grenadines: ~88.7% Christian
Honduras: ~87.6% Christian
Réunion: ~87.6% Christian
Eswatini (listed as Swaziland): ~87.5% Christian
Belize: ~87.2% Christian
Palau: ~86.7% Christian
Uganda: ~86.7% Christian
Slovakia: ~86.5% Christian
Norway: ~86.2% Christian
Monaco: ~86.0% Christian
Nicaragua: ~85.9% Christian
Liberia: ~85.6% Christian
Argentina: ~85.2% Christian
Bulgaria: ~84.1% Christian
Ukraine: ~83.8% Christian
Denmark: ~83.1% Christian
Austria: ~83.0% Christian
Switzerland: ~82.9% Christian
Hungary: ~82.7% Christian
Malawi : ~82.7% Christian
São Tomé and Príncipe: ~82.1% Christian
Finland : ~81.6% Christian
South Africa: ~80.9% Christian
Map of Christianity in the Middle East
Israel Jewish • 74.7%
Armenian Apostolic Christian • 92.6% - 2.8M
Lebanon Christians • 36.2% - 1.8M
Kuwait Christians • 18.2% - 458K
Qatar Christian • 13.8% - 26.3K
Egyptian Christian • 10%
Syria Christian • 10% - 1.8M
Bahrain Christian • 9.3% - 185K
UAE Christian • 9%
Saudi Arabia - 1.5M
Iran - 1.5M
Iraq - 500K
Israel Population Total =~ 10.24 million
Christian Population Total =~ 10.5 million
Today, 400,000 missionaries are deployed around the world.
The United States is the number one missionary-sending country, deploying roughly 127,000 of those missionaries.
Brazil comes in at number two. Each year, about 38,000 Brazilians travel around the world for the Gospel.
South Korea: About 35,000 missionaries. The South Korean church has a long tradition of prioritizing prayer and active global church planting.
Philippines: Roughly 25,000 missionaries.
Nigeria: Around 20,000 missionaries.