{"id":72964,"date":"2026-02-16T04:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/europe-and-america-lose-millions-of-christians-africa-now-largest-region-with-697-million-believers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:00:05","slug":"europe-and-america-lose-millions-of-christians-africa-now-largest-region-with-697-million-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/europe-and-america-lose-millions-of-christians-africa-now-largest-region-with-697-million-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe and America lose millions of Christians, Africa now largest region with 697 million believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128396757,width-1280,height-720,imgsize-228235,resizemode-6,overlay-toi_sw,pt-32,y_pad-600\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Europe and America lose millions of Christians, Africa now largest region with 697 million believers\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Europe and America lose millions of Christians, Africa now largest region with 697 million believers<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Christianity remains the world\u2019s largest religion at 2.3 billion people, but its global share is shrinking as religious switching accelerates, especially in Western countries. While Europe and North America see steady decline, sub-Saharan Africa now anchors the faith\u2019s growth. The data reveals not collapse, but a geographic and cultural shift reshaping Christianity\u2019s global center of gravity.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/etimes\/trending\/europe-and-america-lose-millions-of-christians-africa-now-largest-region-with-697-million-believers\/articleshow\/128389920.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Europe and America lose millions of Christians, Africa now largest region with 697 million believers Christianity remains the world\u2019s largest religion at 2.3 billion people, but its global share is shrinking as religious switching accelerates, especially in Western countries. While Europe and North America see steady decline, sub-Saharan Africa now anchors the faith\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}