© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesA statue of Martin Luther in Market Square in Wittenberg, Germany. In 1517 Luther nailed his 95 theses to a door of the nearby Schlosskirche, helping to spark the Protestant Reformation.
This year, Protestants will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation. While the exact date of the anniversary is debated, it's conventionally commemorated on Oct. 31, when Martin Luther publicly posted his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church in Wittenberg, Germany, precipitating an eventual schism with Rome throughout much of Northern and Central Europe.
Five centuries later, global Protestant Christianity looks very different than it did at its inception. Here is a look at some key facts about Protestants around the world through data collected over time by Pew Research Center:
1. Globally, Protestants made up 37% of Christians in 2010.
That's a smaller share than Catholics, who comprised 50% of Christians around the world, but substantially larger than the percentage of Orthodox Christians, who represented 12%.
While the Protestant Reformation began in Germany, in 2010, nearly nine-in-ten (87%) of the world's Protestants lived outside of Europe, particularly in countries that make up the "global south," that is, developing nations mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. In fact, there were more Protestants living in Nigeria that year than in Germany. The largest share of Protestants around the world (roughly 20%) lived in the U.S., which was, during the colonial era, largely settled by Puritans and other Protestants from Europe.
Comment: Notice that Latino Victory doesn't acknowledge how they went over the top. It took a tragedy to put things in perspective, yet they maintain they were 'just holding a mirror'! People have pretty much lost their minds, and the depths of how far this 'brain drain' will go remains to be seen.