The Importance Of Information Technology On The World

Information Technologies have become widespread and have penetrated deeply into societies in developing countries. These technologies have been widely adopted and have significantly influenced the lifestyles of people in these countries, including religious people. Information technology at the basic level facilitates the recording, communicating, synthesizing and organization of information. Information Technology has become a dynamic and extremely powerful means of collecting, processing, storing, presenting and sharing information in the developing countries. The processed information is usually presented on digital devices, and also to a large extent presented on public infrastructures such as the internet and the World Wide Web. Information

Christianity has been one of the first religions to adopt and profit from technologies. Ferguson’s (2004) work indicates that historically there have been advances for Christianity when there were advances in technology. The Pax Romana technology for instance existed at the time of Christ, and played a siginficant role in the spread of the gospel (Sims, 2005). Religion is viewed as a defining characteristic of human societies that are independently created across the world and have an influence on the world’s cultures. Uyehara ( 2006), says religion was created to explain phenomenon that confounds humans and to provide spiritual stability for humans. The spiritual health of humans comprises the health of mind, self-acceptance, living peaceably with self, adapting positively oneself to their circumstances, spiritual well-being, individual’s effective coping behavior in to stress, a low disposition of depression, and receiving pure religious belief (Cheng, Liu, & Ho, 2006). Definitions of religion vary, and nearly all have a common characteristic of focusing on the communal aspect of religious practice, and they all emphasize on belief, faith, or the