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| | Faith and Conflict: The Global Rise of Christianity |
 | | In China, where in 1970 there were no legally functioning churches at all, more believers probably gathered for worship than in all of so-called "Christian Europe." And in Europe (as reported by Philip Jenkins) the church with the largest attendance last Sunday was in Kiev, and it is a church of Nigerian Pentecostals. |
 | | For the Roman Catholic church, for ad hoc assemblages of evangelical Protestants, for older Protestant denominations, for regional and global ecumenical ventures—as also for policy analysts not keyed to religion—the attachment of the world's new Christian communities to sterner interpretations of Christian faith is likely to have an ever growing influence on international affairs. |
 | | Well, the Church Mission Society has tons — literally tons — of records of its native agents, as they were called, reporting back on what they were doing, and it is quite clear that most of the work done by CMS in the nineteenth century was done by these native agents. |
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