There are approximately 2.7 million conversions to Christianity every year, according to the World Christian Encyclopedia.[1]
According to various scholars and sources Pentecostalism – a Protestant Christian movement – is the fastest growing religion in the world,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] this growth is primarily due to religious conversion.[11][12]
According to 2015 Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background": A Global Census study published by Baylor University institute for studies of religion, it estimates that 10.2 million Muslims converted to Christianity.[13]
Due primarily to conversion, Christianity has grown in South Korea from 2.0% in 1945[14] to 29.3% in 2010[15]
Protestantism continues to experience steady growth as a result of conversion in Asia,[14][16][17][18][19] Latin America,[16][20][21] the Muslim world,[13] and Oceania.
The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations such as Marriage. Certain people listed here may be lapsed or former converts, or their current religious identity may be ambiguous, uncertain or disputed. Such cases are noted in their list entries.
^David B. Barrett; George Thomas Kurian; Todd M. Johnson, eds. (February 15, 2001). World Christian Encyclopedia p.360. Oxford University Press USA. ISBN 0195079639.
^Miller, Donald E; Sargeant, Kimon H; Flory, Richard, eds. (9 September 2013). Spirit and Power: The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism. Oxford University Press Scholarship. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199920570.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-934563-2. Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing religious movement in the world
^Anderson, Allan; Bergunder, Michael; Droogers, Andre (9 May 2012). Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods. University of California Press Scholarship. doi:10.1525/california/9780520266612.001.0001. ISBN 9780520266612. With its remarkable ability to adapt to different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement.
^"Pentecostalism—the fastest growing religion on earth". ABC. 30 May 2021.
^"Pentecostalism: Massive Global Growth Under the Radar". Pulitzer Center. 9 March 2015. Today, one quarter of the two billion Christians in the world are Pentecostal or Charismatic. Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religion in the world.
^"More Religion, but Not the Old-Time Kind". The New York Times. 3 August 2005. The world's fastest-growing religion is not any type of fundamentalism, but the Pentecostal wing of Christianity.
^"Witnessing The New Reach Of Pentecostalism". The Washington Post. 3 August 2002. Pentecostalism is widely recognized by religious scholars as the fastest-growing Christian movement in the world, reaching into many different denominations.
^"Canadian Pentecostalism". McGill–Queen's University Press. 9 February 2009. One of the most significant transformations in twentieth-century Christianity is the emergence and development of Pentecostalism. With over five hundred million followers, it is the fastest-growing movement in the world. An incredibly diverse movement, it has influenced many sectors of Christianity, flourishing in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and having an equally significant effect on Canada.
^"Max Weber and Pentecostals in Latin America: The Protestant Ethic, Social Capital and Spiritual Capital Ethic, Social Capital and Spiritual Capita". Georgia State University. 9 May 2016. Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.
^A. Elwell, Walter (2017). Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Baker Academic. ISBN 9781493410774. Pentecostalism arguably has been the fastest growing religious movement in the contemporary world
^"Protestantism: The fastest growing religion in the developing world". The Manila Times. 18 November 2017. At the heart of this religious resurgence are Islam and Pentecostalism, a branch of Protestant Christianity. Islam grew at an annual average of 1.9 percent between 2000 and 2017, mainly as the result of a high birth rate. Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic (all branches of the faith emphasize the authority of the Bible and the need for a spiritual rebirth). Why are people so attracted to it?.
^"Why is Protestantism flourishing in the developing world?". The Economist. 18 November 2017. Pentecostalism grew at 2.2 percent each year, mainly by conversion. Half of developing-world Christians are Pentecostal, evangelical or charismatic.
^ abJohnstone, Patrick; Miller, Duane Alexander (2015). "Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background: A Global Census". Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. 11: 8. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
^ abKorean Overseas Information Service, A Handbook of Korea (1993) p, 132
^"Global Christianity: Regional Distribution of Christians". Pew Research Center. December 19, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
^ abOstling, Richard N. (24 June 2001). "The Battle for Latin America's Soul". TIME.com. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^Phillips, Tom (19 April 2014). "China on course to become 'world's most Christian nation' within 15 years" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
^"In China, Protestantism's Simplicity Yields More Converts Than Catholicism". International Business Times. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^Miller, 2006. pp. 185-186
^Chris Arsenault. "Evangelicals rise in Latin America". Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^"Religion in Latin America, Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region". pewforum.org. Pew Research Center, November 13, 2014. 13 November 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
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