Christianity is booming not just in China, but worldwide \u201d\u201c with a singular exception, that I will come to in due course. Christianity is doing especially well in Africa where, thanks be to God, it seems to have escaped the influence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The faith is doing well particularly in places where it is under the most cruel persecution \u201d\u201c as Our Lord promised it would: Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Coptic Christians in Egypt and indeed across the whole of North Africa.<\/p>\n
My friend Professor David Martin has written a gigantic study of Christianity in Central and South America where he sees the rise of Pentecostal Christianity as a great force for good. Individual men and women\u2019s direct experience of the Holy Spirit in their personal lives and public worship have turned many away from drugs, crime and prostitution and returned them to responsible lives of work and thrift, personal pride and family belonging \u201d\u201c the very virtues which, of course, are despised by our atheistic intelligentsia (headquarters, the BBC) as \u201cVictorian\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201c or, worst of all, \u201cThatcherite\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
The only region, in fact, where Christianity is in decline is Europe, controlled as the continent is by an atheistic bureaucracy and the satanic creed of political correctness.<\/p>\n