China to forge trilateral cooperation with India, Sri Lanka
Posted on April 2nd, 2015
Economic Times
BEIJING: China today said it will make joint efforts with India and Sri Lanka to promote a trilateral relationship to address New Delhi’s security concerns in Indian Ocean region, as Beijing grapples to salvage its big ticket investments in Sri Lanka.
“The good interactions and mutual reinforcement among the three pairs of relationship deliver benefits to the three countries and contribute to peace, stability and common prosperity of the region,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a media briefing here.
Asked whether President Xi Jinping has proposed trilateral cooperation between India, China and Sri Lanka during last month’s meeting with Sri Lanka’s new President Maithripala Sirisena, she said, “We are poised to make joint efforts with Sri Lanka and India to promote the sound interactions with each other”.
Sri Lankan Finance Minister, Ravi Karunanayeke who attended the meeting, said, “Xi said why don’t we get India to work with us, which was seized upon by President Sirisena, who ..
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April 2nd, 2015 at 9:10 pm
“But it’s clear from the 245-page report that Pew and the demographic experts they consulted did their homework, so the study is worth taking seriously. With that in mind, here are some of the study’s top findings about what the world will look like — at least, faith-wise — in 2050.
— Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people will increase in the United States (from 16% to 26%) but decline as a share of the total worldwide population.
— Also in the United States, Christians will drop from 75% to 66% of population. Muslims will surpass Jews as the largest non-Christian religion in the U.S.
— Sub-Saharan African will be home to 40% of the Christian population and Nigeria have more Christians than any other country except for the United States and Brazil.
— India will have the largest Muslim population in the world, passing Indonesia, but Hindus will retain a majority.
— More than 10% of Europeans will be Muslim, while the number of Christians in Europe will drop by 100 million.
— Hinduism (1.4 billion adherents) and Judaism (16 million) will increase, while Buddhists will be about the same size as in 2010.
— In the coming decades, 106 million people are projected to leave Christianity. (46 million will convert to Christianity, offsetting the losses a little.)
— The number of countries with Christian majorities will drop to 151, as Christians are projected to decrease in Australia, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Macedonia and the United Kingdom.
— Muslims are expected to make up more than 50% of the population in 51 countries, including the Republic of Macedonia and Nigeria.”
-cnn
April 3rd, 2015 at 8:40 pm
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