Muslims more numerous than Catholics
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press WriterSun Mar 30, 2:48 PM ET
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080330/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_muslims 2008-03-31
3 kommentarer:
En klasskompis som skall bli religionslärare sade att anledningen till att kristendomen ofta räknas som världens största religion beror på att t ex indier har flera religioner, däribland kristendomen.
Vad säger Du om det Dick (Ronie)?
Hmm... Jag förstår nog inte riktigt resonemanget. Sen är kristendomen dock fortfarande större än islam om man slår ihop den protestantiska och ortodoxa kristendomen med den katolska. Mycket större, skulle jag t o m gissa. Men jag har ingen statistik att hänvisa till så där på rak arm.
Resonemanget är att många kristna i tredje världen samtidigt också har andra religioner.
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