Hello readers,
Welcome to this edition of the weekend digest from The Christian Messenger. In this digest, we present you the Top 10 stories of the week beginning Feb 11 and ending Feb 18, 2011.
Story No.1: Maramon Convention 2011 begins on Feb 13
The 116th edition of the Maramon Convention, touted to be the largest Christian Evangelistic Convention in the world, sent people looking up for information relating to the convention. Over 2,200 people landed up on The Christian Messenger to see what we had to offer on Maramon Convention. Read the inaugural story here.
2: Internet ministry announces top 10 Christian leaders of 2010
What was in the 3rd slot last week moved up to the second position this week. This story continued to be one of the most shared reports by our users. You can read the story here.
3. Pentecostal churches membership grows in US: 2011 Yearbook
Pentecostal churches make up four of the 25 largest churches, and both the Assemblies of God and the Church of God increased in membership. The report based on 2011 Yearbook was one of the most widely read reports.
4. Top 10 stories of the week: Feb 5 – Feb 11, 2011
This story based on web traffic data was one of the favorites of our readers this week. Their curiosity over what made news in the Christian world in the week that was is understandable.
5. Look up John 3:16! Fox’s loss, Super Bowl’s gain!
This was the biggest story of the week that went by. However, this week it was pushed down to the 5th slot. Last week, the story ‘Look up John 3:16! Fox’s loss, Super Bowl’s gain!’ had generated great interest among our users particularly among those in the US
6. Redeemed auto driver covers 1,200 Tamil Nadu villages for Jesus
7. Maramon Convention not just for Marthomites: Bishop
8. Get your free NIV Digital Bible downloaded today
9. US teacher challenges study of evolution at public schools
This story was published on Jan 29 this year. However, it hit the popularity index only this week due to some interest in the possibly the author or the study of evolution. Users spent as many as 7 minutes approximately to read up this story.
10. 579 out of 613 people groups in UP have no Christians
Read last week’s Top 10 stories
The stories are rated based on their likability. The likability of a story is gauged by the page views it garners besides the average time taken by the users to read it up on the website. Another important metric is the viral power of the story. Viral power is based on the number of people who share a particular story among their friends on leading social media networks. We have arrived at the Top 10 index based on data culled from Google Analytics, impressions generated on our Facebook page and the sharing activity of our readers on Twitter.
