Digital platforms have surged in East Asian countries since the turn of the millennium. Unlike Western countries, a handful of American digital platforms, especially Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp) and Google (YouTube), generally dominate national markets. Some East Asian countries have witnessed the growth of local and regional digital platforms alongside existing American platforms.

All major global powers are flexing muscles in East Asian waters, with the US, China and even Russia conducting major drills across the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia in recent days. While global attention focuses on the potential for a major conflagration in the Middle East, great powers are sleepwalking toward conflict in Asia.

You may have heard that Christianity is spreading like wildfire across the Middle East. But did you know that leaders in the persecuted Church are now training Western church leaders in evangelism? Phil Moore calls it a quiet revolution.

In the Arab world today, the war in Gaza dominates the news, with its small Palestinian Christian community caught in the crossfire. But over the last decade, ancient churches have faced persecution in Syria and Iraq, while political instability and terrorism have threatened believers in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan.

The nations of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Vietnam condone or actively participate in Christian persecution. The oppression of Christ followers and discrimination against Christianity continue throughout the region.

Iraq is likely to amend its marriage laws, which would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine. Currently, Afghanistan has the lowest marriageable age, where girls and boys can marry at 15. The proposed amendment, which had its first reading on Sunday, has sparked significant backlash both domestically and internationally.

Donald Trump’s comeback is now certain, after he decisively won re-election to the White House, but there is growing uncertainty over how his second-term administration will deal with the Asia-Pacific—a region of increasing strategic relevance and home to a number of international economic and security concerns for the U.S.

The past two decades have seen an explosion of innovation in Asia, helping the region to become a world leader in fields like robotics, electric vehicles and 5G networks. But there is one area that Asia has come to dominate more than any other: fintech. Any first-time traveler to Asia will be struck by a combination of mobile and digital wallet technology that’s a generation ahead of places like the U.S., where cash and paper checks are still common.

Today, more than 40 percent of the world has not yet been evangelized. Yet about 97 percent of the current global total of 450,000 Christian missionaries are sent to people who already have access to the gospel.

Religion has been a significant aspect of human existence as it plays a pivotal role on a daily basis. Christianity is among the religions with the most followers as of 2024. This article reveals the 11 most Christian countries in the world according to the data published by the World Population Review and Insider Monkey.