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Not yet 2 billion!
That’s the approximate total number of all Christians in today’s world of 6.7 billion souls and counting distributed as follows:
(1) 1.1 or 1.2 billion Catholics (East and West), depending on what statistical base you use;
(2) 250~300 million Orthodox (Assyrians, Oriental, and Eastern); and
(3) ~600 million Protestants (“traditional,” neos, and pseudos of about 30,000+ sects or denominations).
However, Islam has the “fastest” growing number of adherents now at around 1.2 billion worldwide (Sunnis, Shi’ites, and other sects).
Hinduism comes close at around 800~900 million with India’s total population surpassing the 1 billion mark last year.
Buddhism follows at around 300 million but this may be ecclipsed by Chinese indigenous religious beliefs (Confucianism, etc.) among its 1.2~1.3 billion total population.
Catholicism in Africa is seen by some demographers as the “fastest” growing in the world, estimated now at around 140 million Catholics, concentarated in sub-Saharan regions, to the chagrin of Islamists.
No, Protestantism cannot match the Catholic Church!
The Southern Baptist Convention and its allied ecclesial communities (around 22 million in the U.S. and 10 million overseas) used to be the #1 and fastest growing organized religion in the U.S. but, now, it is second only to the Catholic Church in the U.S. at around 65~67 million!
Take the case of Atlanta, GA, and, generally throughout the Southern U.S., the so-called “Bible-belt” of Protestantism. Catholicism is growing leaps and bounds! The same is happening in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.
catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=6366
Brazil (#1 country in the world with the most Catholic population at 145 million vs. 185 million of its total population) is, indeed, experiencing this conversion phenomenon to Protestantism, mainly to Pentecostals, but the Episcopal Conference is answering back with vengeance. Also, the regional CELAM has put in place evangelization and re-evangelization tools that task the episcopal conferences of the South American countries to recoup what has been lost to these wily Protestants.
That’s the approximate total number of all Christians in today’s world of 6.7 billion souls and counting distributed as follows:
(1) 1.1 or 1.2 billion Catholics (East and West), depending on what statistical base you use;
(2) 250~300 million Orthodox (Assyrians, Oriental, and Eastern); and
(3) ~600 million Protestants (“traditional,” neos, and pseudos of about 30,000+ sects or denominations).
However, Islam has the “fastest” growing number of adherents now at around 1.2 billion worldwide (Sunnis, Shi’ites, and other sects).
Hinduism comes close at around 800~900 million with India’s total population surpassing the 1 billion mark last year.
Buddhism follows at around 300 million but this may be ecclipsed by Chinese indigenous religious beliefs (Confucianism, etc.) among its 1.2~1.3 billion total population.
Catholicism in Africa is seen by some demographers as the “fastest” growing in the world, estimated now at around 140 million Catholics, concentarated in sub-Saharan regions, to the chagrin of Islamists.
No, Protestantism cannot match the Catholic Church!
The Southern Baptist Convention and its allied ecclesial communities (around 22 million in the U.S. and 10 million overseas) used to be the #1 and fastest growing organized religion in the U.S. but, now, it is second only to the Catholic Church in the U.S. at around 65~67 million!
Take the case of Atlanta, GA, and, generally throughout the Southern U.S., the so-called “Bible-belt” of Protestantism. Catholicism is growing leaps and bounds! The same is happening in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.
catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=6366
Brazil (#1 country in the world with the most Catholic population at 145 million vs. 185 million of its total population) is, indeed, experiencing this conversion phenomenon to Protestantism, mainly to Pentecostals, but the Episcopal Conference is answering back with vengeance. Also, the regional CELAM has put in place evangelization and re-evangelization tools that task the episcopal conferences of the South American countries to recoup what has been lost to these wily Protestants.
No one breeds like the Catholics… I’ll probably have four or five myself. And God bless our Mexican and Latino brethren, they’re the new Irish.
