The Rapture Ready Index won't be updated again until Monday - and I'm sure it will go up what with all the upset in Iraq this week.
But I'm sure everyone will be excited by this Good News:
http://www.raptureme.com/cgi-bin/rrnews_list.cgi?cmd=print&file=rrnews/N.20040820.A religious awakening in South America's biggest country over the past decade, the rapid advance of evangelical churches and smart business planning by publishers have made Brazil a leading world publisher of Bibles.
"All 136 country-chapters of the World Bible Society taken together published 21 million Bibles last year. Our share was 4.2 million," says Ernit Seibert, marketing director of the Brazilian Bible Society......"more Bibles are produced in Brazil than at any of the other Bible societies around the world."....
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One reason is a decade-long religious revival led by evangelical churches, which have increased their numbers from 9 percent of Brazil's population in 1991, to 15% in 2000....
Well, it goes on with lots more good news. Pretty soon the entire world will either be the Bible Belt or the Muslim Mob. The rest of us will have to find a new planet to live on.