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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dixie*Darling on March 31, 2008, 01:31:22 AM

Title: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
Post by: Dixie*Darling on March 31, 2008, 01:31:22 AM

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3068682420080330

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.

Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.
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He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population -- or about 2 billion people.
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Title: Re: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
Post by: djones520 on March 31, 2008, 01:58:00 AM

Don't think that makes sense.  Wouldn't Shiite's and Sunni's be like Protestants and Catholics?  So how is Islam alone considered a single denomination?

Title: Re: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
Post by: Full-Auto on March 31, 2008, 09:00:13 AM

Give us a few more years, we're working on reducing their numbers.