| | + | *[https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2025.pdf Status of Global Atheism/Christianity, 2025, in the Context of 1900–2050] (831,000 less atheists in the world than a year ago. |
| | '''Desecularization''' is the process by which [[religion]] reasserts its societal influence through religious values, institutions, sectors of society and symbols in reaction to previous and/or co-occurring [[secularization]] processes.<ref>''Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival and Revival'' by Christopher Marsh, 2011, page 11 (Christopher Marsh cites the definitions of desecularization given by Peter L. Berger and Vyacheslav Karpov)</ref> For example, the re-establishment of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] as the official state [[religion]] of the [[Russian Federation]] after the collapse of the [[atheist]]ic [[Soviet Union]], or the rise of the [[Islamic State]], or the institution of [[Shariah]] law in [[Syria]] after the fall of [[Bashar Assad]], or the [[1979 Iranian Revolution]] and [[Fall of the Shah]], or the reemergence of the [[Taliban]] after the [[Fall of Kabul|U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan]] under the [[Biden regime]] and ending the [[American]]-backed [[LGBT]] movement in [[Afghanistan]], or the establishment of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] after the [[Iranian Revolution|Fall of the Shah]] in 1979. Desecularization can also occur through [[Divine Providence|providential]] acts of [[God]] and in reaction to God granting [[Christian]]'s prayers.<ref> | | '''Desecularization''' is the process by which [[religion]] reasserts its societal influence through religious values, institutions, sectors of society and symbols in reaction to previous and/or co-occurring [[secularization]] processes.<ref>''Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival and Revival'' by Christopher Marsh, 2011, page 11 (Christopher Marsh cites the definitions of desecularization given by Peter L. Berger and Vyacheslav Karpov)</ref> For example, the re-establishment of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] as the official state [[religion]] of the [[Russian Federation]] after the collapse of the [[atheist]]ic [[Soviet Union]], or the rise of the [[Islamic State]], or the institution of [[Shariah]] law in [[Syria]] after the fall of [[Bashar Assad]], or the [[1979 Iranian Revolution]] and [[Fall of the Shah]], or the reemergence of the [[Taliban]] after the [[Fall of Kabul|U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan]] under the [[Biden regime]] and ending the [[American]]-backed [[LGBT]] movement in [[Afghanistan]], or the establishment of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] after the [[Iranian Revolution|Fall of the Shah]] in 1979. Desecularization can also occur through [[Divine Providence|providential]] acts of [[God]] and in reaction to God granting [[Christian]]'s prayers.<ref> |
| | *[http://www.jesus.org.uk/blog/radical-christian-history/miracles-seen-china-revival Miracles seen in China revival Published on 20th January 2008] | | *[http://www.jesus.org.uk/blog/radical-christian-history/miracles-seen-china-revival Miracles seen in China revival Published on 20th January 2008] |