The Christian church has seen "spectacular growth" in Asia in the past 20 years, and there are 75 million believers on the continent, Christian News reported. Most of the growth has taken place in Indonesia, China, and South Korea.
Countries formerly closed to the gospel, such as Cambodia, Nepal, and Mongolia, are accepting missionaries, and progress has been made in closed countries, including Tibet and Bhutan. Christians from Korea, India, and the Philippines who are working as missionaries are among 25,000 Asian nationals serving in foreign cultures.
"Buddhism is on the decline in South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan," said Malaysian high priest K. Sri Dammananda Maha Thera, at a recent meeting of Buddhist leaders. "Every day we are losing our youth to Christianity."