VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.Read more....
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -- Helen Keller
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Muslims more numerous than Catholics
Maybe there's something to be said about the movie Fitna.
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