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Offline Dixie*Darling

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Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
« 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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Re: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
« Reply #1 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?
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Re: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 09:00:13 AM »
Give us a few more years, we're working on reducing their numbers.
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