Posted on 03/31/2008 7:25:04 AM PDT by Between the Lines
VATICAN CITY (AP) - 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.
However, it is a warning. Have babies. Stop Islamization.
When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, Formenti said.
Both of them kill the Druze.
And it’s been a while since Jesuits were trying to kill Franciscans.
Isn't that what your church claims? ;-0
The shift in numbers was bound to happen sooner or later due to the birth rates in Europe. It will be dominated by muslims within two generations or less. A great book about the shift in demographics is "America Alone" by Mark Steyn. In the end I don't believe there is much we can do for Europe or Russia.
Isn't that what your church claims? ;-0
From the top of my church's webpage stating what we believe:
What We Believe
In essential beliefs - we have unity.
"There is one Body and one Spirit... there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of us all..." Ephesians 4:4-6
In non-essential beliefs - we have liberty.
"Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters... Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls...So then each of us will give an account of himself to God ...So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God." Romans 14:1, 4, 12, 22
In all our beliefs - we show charity.
"...If I hold in my mind not only all human knowledge but also the very secrets of God, and if I have faith that can move mountains - but have no love, I amount to nothing at all." I Corinthians 13:2 (Ph)
Though my church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, we do not berate, belittle, demonize or deny any church that claims to be part of the Body of Christ, even if we consider them to be apostate. That is not our mission. Nor do we proselytize from any of their congregations, we seek only those who are unchurched. And if anyone that has belonged to another church in the past five years comes to our church and wants to be a member will do not permit them to do so until they have tried to sincerely reconcile with there former church including going back to their former church for at least six months.
Does that answer your question as to what my church claims?
Sounds like the Catholics better get busy! :-)
Not only that, but all members of all Islamic nations are counted as Muslim. Only those who are registered with their parishes are counted as Catholic, even in predominantly Catholic nations. The effect is that atheists, agnostics, converts and others are counted as Muslim despite formally rejecting it.
I find it interesting that everyone is arguing over who actually has more adherents like it is some kind of competition instead bemoaning the loss of all these souls to hell.
I am also amazed that no one has mentioned the fact that Islam only exists do to the teaching of the trinity by the Catholic Church. What a sad situation seeing the evil it spawned larger then the parent and growing larger everyday
We will be judged by our fruits. That is a lot of bitter fruit
The church claims that the people who gave us the doctrine of the trinity did so being led by the Holy Spirit in truth. To believe that you would also have to believe God wanted all these souls sent to hell. He sees the future so he would know how it turned out. You cannot interpret it any other way.
Not the God I would want anything to do with nor should any of you.
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