Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO
Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the
world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims
have overtaken us, Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview
with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the
Vatican's yearbook.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world
population - a stable percentage - while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to
make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have
fewer and fewer, the monsignor said.
Formenti said that the data refer to 2006. The figures on Muslims were
put together by Muslim countries and then provided to the United
Nations, he said, adding that the Vatican could only vouch for its own
data.
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians
make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.
Spokesmen for the Vatican and the United Nations did not immediately
return phone calls seeking comment Sunday.
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