Africa’s Catholic population has grown by 238 per cent since 1980

[_Abyssinia]

The highest growth rates for Catholicism are in Africa and Asia, according to a new study released by the Centre for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

The newly-issued report, called “Global Catholicism: Trends & Forecasts”, states that the Catholic population has grown by 57 percent since 1980. “However, this growth differs by region, with Europe’s Catholic population growing by just 6 percent while the number of Catholics in Africa grew by 238 percent. Differences between these two regions are largely attributable to differences in fertility rates over time.”

“Over the last 50 years, the proportion of the global population who are Catholic has remained remarkably steady at about 17.5 percent. Most demographers anticipate a global population exceeding 10 billion by 2100, up from 7.3 billion now. The ‘engine’ of population growth is no longer increasing numbers of children — it is extending life expectancies,” said the report by CARA, which is based at Georgetown University.

catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/03/africas-catholic-population-has-grown-by-238-per-cent-since-1980/

 

[Path_Finder]

Hopefully this will keep up, despite a lot of persecution happening in Africa, we know some people from Sudan.

 

[bitznbitez]

Numbers since 1980 are good everywhere but Europe frankly.

nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2015/06/global-catholicism.html

“The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated”

 

[ProVobis]

No real surprise.

 

[Ridgerunner]

It has long seemed a great shame to me that money flowing to USCCB isn’t spent on funding seminaries and convents in Africa instead of giving it to political organizations in the U.S. In my diocese there are some priests from Africa, and I only wish there were more.

 

[Johann_du_Toit]

As one of those African Catholics I knew that already.

In the old days, they used to sent Irish and Italian Priests to Africa and Latin America to do missionary work.

Now the Church sends African and Latin American Priests to Ireland and Italy due to a shortage of priests in those countries. Go figure.

 

[twf]

As one of those African Catholics I knew that already.

In the old days, they used to sent Irish and Italian Priests to Africa and Latin America to do missionary work.

Now the Church sends African and Latin American Priests to Ireland and Italy due to a shortage of priests in those countries. Go figure.

African and Asian priests (especially Indian or Filipino in the latter case) are definitely found in abundance in North America… but are there really a lot of Latin American priests being sent abroad? From what I’ve read and experienced, many Latin American countries are facing an extreme priest shortage - in many regions one priest per 10 000 or more faithful.