300+ young Christians from India have answered so far. The survey is still open, so these numbers will move, but some of what they are telling us is already too clear to sit on.
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have been asked something about their faith they could not answer.
What this showsWe asked: “Has anyone ever asked you a question about your faith that you couldn’t answer?” The 72% counts everyone who said yes in any form, whether it shook them, didn’t unsettle them, or sent them off to find the answer afterwards. 1 in 14 counts those who answered “Yes, and it shook me”.
Every bubble is a person. The dashed ones are the conversations they backed out of because they did not feel ready to answer.
What this showsWe asked: “Have you ever avoided or backed out of a spiritual conversation because you didn’t feel ready to respond?” The 69 in a hundred counts anyone who answered once or twice, sometimes, or often: everyone except “never”.
A map of where a question travels once somebody has it. Thickness is how many people take that route.
And the routes that did not exist a decade ago are now among the biggest: YouTube 31%, Google 30%, AI tools 25%. Separately, 75% have taken a question about their faith to an AI tool at least once.
What this showsWe asked: “When you have doubts or questions, what do you usually do?” People could pick as many answers as applied, so the percentages add up to more than 100. The 75% figure comes from a separate question about whether they have ever taken a faith question to an AI tool; it counts everyone who did not answer “never”.
One ribbon, cut by the reason people gave. The widest piece is not the one you might expect.
What this showsWe asked: “Do you personally know anyone who has walked away from the Christian faith?” The headline counts everyone who answered “yes, several people” or “yes, one or two” (235 people), out of those who answered this optional question. We then asked, “What do you think was the main reason?” The ribbon splits the 252 answers by reason, one main reason each. These are respondents’ views of why someone they know left, not the words of the people who left.
A line between two people, broken in the middle.
What this showsWe asked: “Do you have close friends or family who aren’t Christians whom you wish you could talk to about your faith, but feel unable to?” The first number (54%) is those who answered yes. The second (80%) adds those who answered “somewhat”.
About these numbers. Interim results from an anonymous survey that is still open. The figures will keep moving as more people answer, so read them as early signals, not final results. Only totals are ever published.
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