{"id":5879,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-worldwide-growth-of-islam\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:12","slug":"the-worldwide-growth-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-worldwide-growth-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worldwide Growth of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in America and, surprisingly, the September 11 attack has accelerated the conversions.<\/p>\n<p>An Islamic missionary site listed on Yahoo claims that according to &#8220;The Almanac Book of Facts&#8221;, the world population increased 137% within the past decade. Christianity increased 46%, while Islam increased 235%.<\/p>\n<p>[Holwick &#8211; I am certain the growth has not been in the last DECADE or the world would be very crowded, very quickly.  &#8220;Century&#8221; would be more like it.  Apparently Islamic missionaries can be as prone to exaggeration as their Christian counterparts!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in America and, surprisingly, the September 11 attack has accelerated the conversions. An Islamic missionary site listed on Yahoo claims that according to &#8220;The Almanac Book of Facts&#8221;, the world population increased 137% within the past decade. Christianity increased 46%, while Islam increased 235%. [Holwick &#8211; I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1571,759,1252],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}