General Mission Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 3, 1902

General Mission Notes

EVERY fifth female in India is a widow.

FROM a carefully prepared estimate of religious statistics we cull the following figures: “According to the estimate for the present year, there are in Europe 384,500,000 Christians, 6,600,000 Mohammedans, and 6,500,000 Jews. In all America there are 126,400,000 Christians; the Jews and heathen are not given. In Asia there are 12,600,000 Christians, 109,500,000 Mohammedans, 200,000 Jews, and 667,800,000 pagans. In Africa there are 4,400,000 Christians, 36,000,000 Moslems, 400,000 Jews, and 91,000,000 heathens. And in Oceanica there are 9,700,000 Christians, 247,700,000 Moslems, and 4,400,000 heathens. In the whole world there are 240,000,000 Catholics, 163,300,000 Protestants, and 98,300,000 Greeks, or a total of 501,600,000 Christians in a population of 1,544,509,000.”