Updates

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The Global Directory of Theological Education Institutions is an online database of more than 7,000 institutions of theological education (church-based theological seminaries, Bible schools, university departments of theology, faculties of religious studies).

This new module allows World Christian Database users to search for institutions or browse though selected listings by using links on the new Theological Education Directory home page. A link to this displays on the main query home page as "Theological Education".

Advanced searches can be carried out from any of the sample queries by adding a combination of search terms for any of the fields in the institution's profile including:

• Denomination/Affiliation
  
• Type of institution
  
• Language of instruction
  
• Town/city, state and country
  
• Region of the main office and the geographical scope of work
  
• Degrees offered
  
• Accrediting body
  
• Narrative
  

The data are a snapshot of the directory at Globethics.net where authorized users can update the details of their own institution.

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Each year approximately 100,000 believers in Christ have lost their lives prematurely, in situations of witness, as a result of human hostility in the first 10 years of this century.

The Current martyr situations (2000-2010) query documents the 16 largest martyr situations from AD 2000 to 2010, extending documentation already published for AD 33 to AD 2000 on the Martyrs home page.

A Summary of all Epochs extends the research originally published in World Christian Trends and furthers "the evidence for the startling conclusion that, over the 20 centuries of the Christian faith, some 70 million Christians have been murdered for that faith and hence are called martyrs."

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