| Christianity
in Karnataka Today |
Current
Statistics
The
last census provided the disappointing news that
the Christian population, which was 2.9% in 1971,
has now declined to 2%. This information should
be taken very seriously. For this highlights the
fact that the Christian population in this land
is not increasing but declining.
Even today
there are thousands of people in this land who
have never heard the gospel, not even once. There
are many places where not one single Christian
lives, and there are several districts which do
not have a single Church.
In Karnataka
there are about 1.1 million Christians, with about
300 thousand living in Bangalore. Most of the
Christians in Karnataka worship in the Catholic
Church. Although most of the headquarters of Christian
organizations are situated in Bengaluru city,
those organizations with a vision of reaching
Karnataka are very few.
There
are very few Kannada Missionary organizations
that have the vision to reach their own people
with the gospel of Christ. Rather the percentage
of Tamils and Malayalee missionaries who learn
Kannada to reach Kannadigas is much higher. In
Karnataka it is an undisputed fact that the number
of Christian Churches that hold services in English,
Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam, is much higher than
the number of those holding services in Kannada.
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