Christians remained the world’s biggest religious group. But Christians (of all denominations, counted as one group) did not keep pace with global population growth from 2010 to 2020.

Conducted monthly in 29 countries among 20,000 adults for over a decade, the Ipsos What Worries the World study explores what the public thinks are the most important social and political issues.

As of 2024, U.S. allies and partners in East and Southeast Asia spent an average 1.85 percent of GDP on defense – far below new targets the U.S. is pushing for.

In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states are about to enter into an era of depopulation, in which they will age dramatically and lose millions of people.

South Asia, with Gen Z making up nearly 30% of its population, stands at a crossroads. In our church pews and on our streets, a fire is spreading. The question is, will we fan these flames or turn away from their heat?

Look closer, and a different story begins to emerge: Could it be that the world’s leading cities are no longer defined by economic power alone?

Asia’s where the digital era’s laws and rules are being hashed out, in multiple languages and under wildly different philosophies of control.

South Asia is on the cusp of transformation. Whether the next sixteen hours will be of peace or peril may well depend on how the lessons of these last sixteen are heeded.

How and why did so many professing Christians across so many regions of the eastern hemisphere turn to Islam? And what happened to the ones who didn’t convert?

While the regions in question often hold material or strategic value, the battles over naming and borders are deeply entangled with cultural identity, national pride and the weight of regional history.