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Jamaica
For a more detailed listing click here The island - discovered by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1494 - was settled by the Spanish early in the 16th century. The native Taino, who had inhabited Jamaica for centuries, were gradually exterminated and...
Jamaica (Joshua Project)
Progress Scale: Significantly Reached Population: 2,811,000 % Literacy: 89.00 Primary Religion: Christianity Professing Christian: 81.33 % Evangelical: 29.75 Official Language:...
Jamaica (Operation World)
Largest Religion: Christian Number People Groups: 9 Number Languages: 7 Official Language: English; 97% of the population speak Jamaican Creole For more information go to Jamaica on the Operation World website. The...
Jamaica (Prayercast)
Government: Parliamentary Democracy Major People Groups: Jamaican Black, Jamaican Mulatto, Haitian, Afro-East-Indian, British GDP Per Capita: $8,700 Literacy Rate: 88.7% Unreached:...
Jamaica (World Factbook website)
Area: 10,991 Population: 2,808,570 July 2020 est. Life Expectancy: 75.20 Net migration rate: -9.40 2020 est. GDP (real growth rate): 0.70 2017 est. Internet Users: 1,548,618 For more information...
Jamaica (WorldBank)
NOTE: The most recent year's information is shown below. Click on the year to see all years for this indicator. COMMUNICATION2022 3,002,736 Mobile cellular subscriptions2021 82 Individuals using the...
Jamaica flag
·Type: Images ·Collection: World Factbook country flags ·Small size: 108 x 54 px ·Large size: 604 x 302 px ·Categories: Collection :: World Factbook country flags Country :: Jamaica Partners :: U.S. Government...
Jamaica map (World Factbook)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Jamaica (Factbook) ·Map Date: 2007 ·Producer: US Government ·Collection: World Factbook country maps ·Size: 329x353 px, landscape ·Categories: Type :: Maps Collection ::...
Jamaica map (World Factbook, modified)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Jamaica (World Factbook, modified to add country name) ·Map Date: 2007 ·Producer: US Government modified by Joshua Project ·Collection: World Factbook country maps ·Size: 329x353...
Jan Mayen
For a more detailed listing click here This desolate, arctic, mountainous island was named after a Dutch whaling captain who indisputably discovered it in 1614 (earlier claims are inconclusive). Visited only occasionally by seal hunters and...
Jan Mayen (World Factbook website)
Area: 377 For more information go to Jan Mayen on the World Factbook website. The above link opens in a new tab.
Jan Mayen flag
·Type: Images ·Collection: World Factbook country flags ·Small size: 88 x 54 px ·Large size: 492 x 302 px ·Categories: Collection :: World Factbook country flags Country :: Jan Mayen Partners :: U.S. Government...
Jan Mayen map (World Factbook)
·Type: Maps ·Description: Jan Mayen (Factbook) ·Map Date: 2007 ·Producer: US Government ·Collection: World Factbook country maps ·Size: 330x355 px, landscape ·Categories: Type :: Maps...
January 2013 Issue 2:1 Overview
The Global Charter of ConscienceEngaging Resurgent Islam in Malaysia: Challenges and opportunitiesThe Impact of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Ministry to MuslimsEuropean Immigration Policy: Lessons and challenges for the churchA 21st Century...
January 2014 Issue 3:1 Overview
Human Trafficking and the Response of the Global Church ‘Human trafficking is a global crime affecting nearly all countries in every region of the world’, writes Abey George. Between 2007 and 2010, victims of 136 different nationalities were...
January 2015 Issue 4:1 Overview
‘All of Me’ ‘In the first part of the twentieth century . . . evangelicals largely dropped social engagement, in what has been called the Great Reversal’, writes Steve Haas (Vice President and Chief Catalyst for World Vision US). We are...
January 2016 Issue 5:1 Overview
The Crisis in Syria ‘The churches in Syria (and Iraq) are facing major challenges amid the current regional crisis’, writes an anonymous Syrian pastor. The church was not prepared to deal with persecution or oppression, but is catching up...
January 2017 Issue 6:1 Overview
A Caribbean Perspective on the US Elections ‘Throughout the Caribbean, there is real apprehension about the conduct and outcome of the election’, write Las Newman (Lausanne Global Associate Director for Regions) and Minke Newman (environmental...
January 2018 Issue 7:1 Overview
Witnessing to the Gospel through Forgiveness ‘Throughout history, the Copts, the indigenous Christians of Egypt, have endured sporadic and sometimes intense times of persecution’, writes Wafik Wahba (Associate Professor of Global Christianity at...
January 2019 Issue 8:1 Overview
Can Technology Help Disciple Iran’s New Believers? ‘By God’s grace, we find ourselves in a season of harvest [in Iran]’, writes David Yeghnazar (Executive Director of Elam Ministries). While bringing the gospel to Iran remains a priority,...
January 2020 Issue 9:1 Overview
Protests in Hong Kong and how Christians should engage ‘Since June, 2019, [Hong Kong] has been in a state of unrest’, writes Francis Tsui (Board member of Asia CMS). What started as a protest against the government’s effort to push through a...
January 2021 Issue 10:1 Overview
Global church and mission leaders want to see diversity in our teams. But in reality, we seldom go beyond diversity to equality, and even less likely to mutuality where differences are not just tolerated but warmly embraced. In his article...
January 2022 Issue 11:1 Overview
The welfare of Muslim women in Afghanistan has been our great concern in the aftermath of the return of the Taliban in the country. How can the global church understand what they face in the area of education, family, and public life, in order to...
January 2023 Issue 12:1 Overview
Christianity has undergone historic demographic and cultural shifts. In the Global South, Christianity is ‘growing both qualitatively and quantitatively at a phenomenal pace in comparison to Global North Christianity,’ as stated in...
January 2024 Issue 13:1 Overview
Since humankind decided to become like God and ate of the fruit, it has been plagued with dis-ease. A broken relationship, that between God and humankind, was the first example of disease and suffering the world had ever known. A form of suffering...
Japa Witnesses
Brain Drain or Migrating Witnesses? Missiological studies is heavily loaded with European and Western vocabulary and languages. This is partly because of the way the history of mission has been written and developed with a focus on mission from the...
Japan
For a more detailed listing click here In 1603, after decades of civil warfare, the Tokugawa shogunate (a military-led, dynastic government) ushered in a long period of relative political stability and isolation from foreign influence. For more...
Japan (Joshua Project)
Progress Scale: Unreached Population: 123,218,000 % Literacy: 99.00 Primary Religion: Buddhism Professing Christian: 2.16 % Evangelical: 0.57 Official Language:...
Japan (Operation World)
Largest Religion: Buddhist Number People Groups: 36 Number Languages: 16 Official Language: Japanese For more information go to Japan on the Operation World website. The above link opens in a new tab.
Japan (Prayercast)
Government: Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy Major People Groups: Japanese, Central Ryukyuan GDP Per Capita: $41,400 Literacy Rate: 99% Unreached: 97.9% Population:...