Islam overtakes Catholicism as the World's Largest Religion

Islam overtakes Catholicism as the World's Largest Religion

Sunday, March 30, 2008 by Taylor Marshall | E-mail this post

This is what happens when Christians lose faith, contracept, abort, and fail to evangelize. It should serve as a wake-up call. I hate to admit it, but Catholicism is no longer the world's largest religion:

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.

"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.

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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