The origins of general nursing

Abstract

There are approximately 85 million Christians in Asia but more than 40 percent of them live in just two countries, the Philippines and South Korea. In the postcolonial era, a strong element of Christian social militancy was observable in many Asian countries. Postcolonial Asian Christian social protest has focused on various concerns including the continuing social power of caste in India, workers' rights in South Korea and Southeast Asia, and democratic reform of authoritarian political regimes which characterize government in much of the region. A more recent form of militancy in Asian Christianity is associated with the rise of charismatic/Pentecostal and fundamentalist/evangelical groups. Asian Christians now find their claimed freedoms to worship and evangelize occasions under increased social scrutiny and resistance among majority religious and cultural groups and their political leaders