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14,591subscribers

-8 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001395819734
TypeChannel
Username@ctmagazine
DescriptionChristianity Today's official Telegram channel. Thoughtful. Christian. Journalism. https://www.christianitytoday.com (with 5,000+ articles across 10+ languages)
Created5 April 2020measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live27 August 2026
Measurements held18
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 27 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/ctmagazine

Growth

14,57314,60814,590.57 August 2026 — 14,599 subscribers7 August 2026 — 14,599 subscribers8 August 2026 — 14,597 subscribers9 August 2026 — 14,588 subscribers10 August 2026 — 14,585 subscribers11 August 2026 — 14,575 subscribers12 August 2026 — 14,573 subscribers13 August 2026 — 14,575 subscribers15 August 2026 — 14,583 subscribers16 August 2026 — 14,588 subscribers17 August 2026 — 14,599 subscribers18 August 2026 — 14,595 subscribers20 August 2026 — 14,592 subscribers22 August 2026 — 14,602 subscribers23 August 2026 — 14,608 subscribers25 August 2026 — 14,598 subscribers26 August 2026 — 14,588 subscribers27 August 2026 — 14,591 subscribers14,5917 August 202627 August 2026
18 measurements spanning 20 days, net -8. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 14,568–14,613 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
27 Aug 2026, 08:3614,591+3
26 Aug 2026, 07:0814,588-10
25 Aug 2026, 04:0214,598-10
23 Aug 2026, 23:3614,608+6
22 Aug 2026, 07:1714,602+10
20 Aug 2026, 20:0214,592-3
18 Aug 2026, 23:3814,595-4
17 Aug 2026, 20:1414,599+11
16 Aug 2026, 16:0214,588+5
15 Aug 2026, 01:3414,583+8
13 Aug 2026, 18:1614,575+2
12 Aug 2026, 15:5314,573-2
11 Aug 2026, 15:3614,575-10
10 Aug 2026, 13:1214,585-3
9 Aug 2026, 14:1514,588-9
8 Aug 2026, 13:3114,597-2
7 Aug 2026, 07:3014,599no change
7 Aug 2026, 07:2614,599first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 17 February 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 40 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 12 May 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Photos
1,380
Links
1,410

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 27 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Reaction mix

535 reactions across 20 posts, in 8 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 55.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
29955.9%
😢11822.1%
👍356.54%
🔥336.17%
🤔305.61%
👎162.99%
👏30.561%
🎉10.187%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 20 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 535reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 17 February 2026 to 12 May 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
1
across the posts below
Posts paid on
1
of 20 we hold a reading for · 5%
Most on one post
1
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @ctmagazine. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 20 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 17 February 2026 to 12 May 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

12 May 2026, 15:53 UTC≈7,980 views67 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Sudan’s Civil War Destroyed Hospitals and Churches Local doctors and Christians are trying to rebuild lives in the capital city. Read more

😢3923👍5

12 May 2026, 15:52 UTC≈7,750 views33 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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The Megachurch Caught in Brazil’s Largest Bank Fraud Lagoinha Global is the fourth-largest megachurch in the country. One of its pastors is involved in a multibillion-dollar scheme. Read more

12👍7🤔5😢5👎4

12 May 2026, 15:52 UTC≈6,550 views17 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Anxious Chinese Young People are Turning to Fortunetelling Even in churches, youth group members are asking about star signs. Pastors are pushing back and seeking openings. Read more

😢161

29 Apr 2026, 16:35 UTC≈7,330 views40 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Some Christians Risk Persecution if They’re Honest in India’s Census Publicly identifying their faith can lead to consequences for lower-caste Christians and those in religiously hostile states. Read more

😢2810🔥2

29 Apr 2026, 16:34 UTC≈5,750 views14 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Just War Theory Is Supposed to Be Frustrating The venerable theological tradition makes war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient—and that’s the point. Read more

🤔11🔥3

29 Apr 2026, 16:33 UTC≈5,030 views27 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Facing Arrest, Cuban Christian Influencers Continue Call for Freedom Young people are using social media to spread the gospel and denounce the Communist regime. Read more

20🔥7

14 Apr 2026, 15:53 UTC≈5,740 views53 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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The Iranian Church Persists Amid war, some Christians are evangelizing, preparing food for neighbors, and displaying other acts of generosity. Read more

41👍6👏3🔥3

14 Apr 2026, 15:52 UTC≈4,990 views22 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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UK Immigration Plans Unsettle Hong Kongers Who Fled China Christians continue to cling to the fact that “the Lord has not abandoned us.” Read more

🔥108👍4

14 Apr 2026, 15:51 UTC≈4,480 views20 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Resettle 150 Ukrainian Families As the US makes it more difficult for refugees to stay, Rodney Mast and his church community are rallying around their new friends. Read more

15🔥5

26 Mar 2026, 20:14 UTC≈6,080 views19 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Q&A: Why Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Fighting and How Christians There Survive A conversation with human rights lawyer and former diplomat Knox Thames. Read more

😢109

26 Mar 2026, 20:14 UTC≈5,270 views25 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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War Drove Her Out. Now She’s Planting a Church. Displaced from Ukraine, a young immigrant found safety—and mission—in small-town Minnesota. Read more

25

26 Mar 2026, 20:13 UTC≈4,580 views25 reactionsread 27 August 2026
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Some Israelis are Turning to Faith Amid Ongoing War Studies show a renewed interest in Judaism, and pastors report an increase in baptisms. Read more

18👎4🔥2🤔1

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @ctmagazine. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 27 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Christianity Today” (@ctmagazine), 14,591 subscribers as measured 27 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ctmagazine.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.