Media

Videos

“Babies Run the World: The Future of Religion Worldwide”, BBC 100 Women consultation, Delhi, India, October 22. Click here for video, beginning around 56:27.

7-Minute Video on the State of the World from 1970 to 2010 at the Lausanne Global Leadership Forum in Bangalore, India.

“The Future of Ecumenism: BTI Conversations,” interview with Rodney Peterson, Boston Theological Institute.

Three-part video, “Demographics of World and Asian Christianity,” at the World Council of Churches 10th General Assembly in Busan, South Korea: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Media citations 

Gina A. Zurlo, “Why the future of the world’s largest religion is female – and African.” The Conversation. March 23, 2022.

Kelsey Dallas, “First, the Pandemic Forced Christian Missionaries Home. Then, it Transformed Their Work.” Desert News, April 13, 2021.

Jackson Elliott, “Nepal: Miracles Drive One of the World’s Fastest-growing Churches.” The Christian Post, February 15, 2021.

Richard Ostling, “Hot Tip: Here’s Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Every Religion Everywhere.”GetReligion.org, March 11, 2020.

Daniel Silliman, “Have Pentecostals Outgrown Their Name?” Christianity Today, May 29, 2020.

Bogan, Jesse. “Maplewood Flock Quits Fast-Growing Pentecostal Denomination in Protest Over Racism.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 2019.

Mintner, Terrance J. “Squeezed on All Sides: Ongoing Christian Exodus from the Middle East.” The Media Line, January 15, 2019.

Gettleman, Jeffrey, et al. “John Chau Aced Missionary Boot Camp. Reality Proved a Harsher Test.” The New York Times, November 30, 2018.

Sahgal, Neha, and Alan Cooperman. “Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century.” Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life. November 8, 2017.

Zylstra, Sarah Eekhoff. “Counting the Cost: DR Congo Demonstrates Difficulty of Measuring Martyrdom.” Christianity Today, March 31, 2017.

“Study: 90k Christians Were Killed for Their Faith in 2016.” Special Report with Bret Bair, Fox News, January 12, 2017.

Stub, Sara Toth. “Christianity in the Holy Land Has Gotten a Big Boost from Migrant Workers.” The Tower Magazine, November 2016.

Zurlo, Gina, and Todd M. Johnson. “Who Really Lives in Religious Diversity?” Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, December 8, 2015.

Conor Gaffey, “Jesus Has Found a Home Here: The Rise of Catholicism in Africa,” Newsweek, November 30, 2015.

Michael Gryboski, “Christian Anti-Fraud Group Goes Global to Investigate ‘Religious’ Fraudsters Who Bilk Believers Out of $50 Billion a Year,” The Christian Post, March 6, 2015.

Greg Botelho, “Amid Killings and Kidnappings, Can Christianity Survive in the Middle East?” CNN, February 27, 2015.

“Canonization and Christian Persecution,” The Catholic Channel (Sirius XM Radio), Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York. May 3, 2014.