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- Kazakhstan went from 100 evangelicals in 1990 to 6000 in 2000.
- Between 1990 and 2004, Christians in Cambodia grew from 200 to 400,000.
- Until about 1990, the death rate from unnatural causes in Colombia's Bellavista Prison was 600 a year---all murders! It quickly sank to one a year when prisoners began receiving Christ in large numbers. The atmosphere of violence has been erased.
- In 1981 Rio de Janeiro had 30 spiritist centers for each evangelical church. By 1996, that had flip-flopped to 40 evangelical churches for each spiritist center.
- In beleaguered Kurdistan, there were no believers in 1992. Today, there are churches in every major city.
- Swedish radio mission IBRA estimates, "In the Middle East, there are perhaps millions of isolated 'radio Christians' who have become Christians through hearing evangelistic transmissions..."
- More Muslims have turned to Christ in the last ten years than in the previous 1000 years.
- More than 100,000 members of the Hmong tribe in northern Vietnam have turned to the Lord after listening to Christian radio programs. (No missionaries involved.) This was discovered by accident because none of them were literate enough to write to the station and report their massive response.
- Eight out of ten humans now have access to the entire Bible in their own language.
From the book MEGASHIFTS, by James Rutz
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