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 Number of Muslims in the world exceeded the number of Catholics - is apparent from the data, published in the recent Pontifical Yearbook, published by the Vatican. Muslims are 1 billion 322 million, and the Catholics - 1 billion 130 million. Newspaper Corriere della Sera, citing data from the recently published "Annuario Pontificio," says the Vatican for the first time officially acknowledged that Islam has become the first religion of the world. Muslims constitute 19.2 percent. population, and Catholics - 17.4 percent. It is noted that one of the main reasons for this decline of birth rates among Catholics, and its growth in the Islamic world. The biggest Italian newspaper recalls that the first of the numerical dominance of the Muslim Catholics already announced last year, the American institute, dealing with religions - World Christian Database. The Holy See, not trusting the data, decided to validate itself. Carried out by its estimates confirmed the earlier results. Official estimates that the reason for satisfaction for the Catholic Church is the fact that today the world is about 700 priests, more than a year ago. |
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