{"id":29948,"date":"2011-12-20T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_belief_blog_christianity_goes_global_as_worlds_largest_religion\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T03:26:14","slug":"cnn_belief_blog_christianity_goes_global_as_worlds_largest_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29948","title":{"rendered":"(CNN Belief Blog) Christianity goes global as world&#39;s largest religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are by far the largest religious group on the planet, and the religion has gone truly global over the past century, according to a new report out Monday, which finds some of the world&#8217;s biggest Christian communities in surprising places.<\/p>\n<p>Europe was the clear center of world Christianity one hundred years ago, but today the Americas are home to more than a third of all Christians. In fact, the United States has the world&#8217;s largest Christian population, of more than 247 million, followed by Brazil and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/19\/christianity-goes-global-as-worlds-largest-religion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are by far the largest religious group on the planet, and the religion has gone truly global over the past century, according to a new report out Monday, which finds some of the world&#8217;s biggest Christian communities in surprising<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29948\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,42,419,119,360,418,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-globalization","category-methodist","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}