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Brazil becomes second-largest Christian missionary exporter in the world

Brazil is sending the second highest number of missionaries to the rest of the world, according to the director of a Global Christianity study organisation.

Of 400,000 global missionaries that were sent to foreign countries in 2010, Brazil sent 34,000, second behind the United States, which sent 127,000.

The statistics were presented by Todd Johnson, director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Interestingly, even though the United States sends the most missionaries abroad, it is also the country that receives the most foreign missionaries as well, with 32,400 foreign missionaries arriving to the US in 2010 – the majority of whom come from Brazil.

Beaten only by the United States, Brazil has the second largest Protestant population in the world. The South American country also has a huge number of mission organisations, of which Jovens Com Missao (Youth with Mission) alone has 16,000 people providing missions to 150 countries.

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  • bighoss

    Better that Brazil should be exporting missionaries than exporting the depraved lifestyle that is typified by that nation's lascivious carryings-on during their "Carnival" celebration, which is their version of Mardi Gras, a rampantly immoral observance that precedes the initiation of the un-Biblical season of "Lent." The notion of having a period of unbridled drunkenness and lust and then getting all sanctified on so-called "Ash Wednesday" is about as foreign to Christianity as Satan could make it, but the deluded Latin American masses, and a lot of North American libertines as well, annually carry out this degrading, un-holy ritual.

    • http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon

      If their women missionaries dress and look the way the women do during their Carnival celebration, they will probably be much more welcome in the homes of the poor depraved sinner.

  • http://twitter.com/lambsev11 @lambsev11

    Lord Jesus please bless Brazil, and let the unbelievers there know it is You who do it! Amen!

  • Mochileiro

    Not everyone in Brazil partakes of the carnival madness. Those are also days when religious persons – both catholic and
    protestant – go on countryside relgious "retreats", and away from the madness of Rio, Sao Paulo and other cities that celebrate Carnival.