A persecution watchdog is casting doubt on a recent report indicating there could be a decrease — or at least a stagnation — in the number of Christians in China.
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David Curry, CEO of Global Christian Relief, an organization that helps Christians under duress around the globe, believes a Pew Research Center report on the matter likely isn’t telling the full story.
“If you believe Pew Research’s latest report, about 23.3 million adults in China self-identified as Christian in 2010,” Curry wrote in a recent Fox News piece. “That number fell to 19.9 million by 2018. That’s a decline of nearly 3.5 million Christians in less than a decade.”
Curry, though, believes there is essential context one must acknowledge when exploring these numbers. He expanded upon the narrative in a recent interview with CBN Digital, explaining the reasons the projections are very likely not capturing the realities of what’s unfolding on the ground in China.
“The church in China, I believe, based on … some methodology of our own, is somewhere around 120 million,” Curry said, though definitive numbers are difficult to determine.
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