Props to all the Muslim mothers around the world for having lots of children!
Muslims more numerous than Catholics
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer
Sun Mar 30, 2:48 PM ETVATICAN CITY - 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.
Source: Yahoo!
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Islam is finally AND officially number one in the list of the largest religions of the world!…
The larger a religion becomes, the more it becomes corrupted. and besides Christianity is still larger if you include all the sects, not just catholicism.
Salaam
I don’t know if its such a good thing, quantity doesn’t equal quality, lol. plus, most muslim nations are growing at a pace that may seem good when we can say we have the most people in the world, but its unsustainable.
Isn’t it unfair to compare a denomination to an entire faith?? Comparing Catholics to Sunni Muslims would be more fair…and I think they just about equal out (or Catholics have a slight lead)…
I don’t think we’re really number 1. A question though: Is our Ummah worth praising right now? We’re in a horrible state in Iman as a whole people, subhana’allah.
^however bad the Ummah may seem, it still has good in it, and has many ppl with top Imaan and great Deen.
May Allah SWT increase these ppl, and let us benefit frm them inshAllah.
Alhamdulillah, I am so glad I made the right decision to cross over 10 years ago.
Stranger, alhamdulillah for the abundant good we do have, but we have a lot of work to do.
About time.. Go Islam!
- http://www.musliminamerica.org
ALLAH S.W.T already said it “They plan, but we too are planning and ALLAH is the best
of Planners” Sure nuff our enemies planned but it lloks like it is backfiring he he he hee:-)
Allahu Ahkbar!
it’s a great feeling to know that 19.2% of the world population are our fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters! Muhammad(PBUH) has indeed delivered the message. La ilaha Ila Allah Muhamadon rasoolAllah.
Party at MR’s place!!
Whose bringing the sheesha?
But yo fo real ya’ll still think like you are #2. Start acting like #1.
This is STATUS. This is like being ELITE. So stop whining!
Everybody is quoting the foam over the sea hadith but yo chillax and relax.
Muslims still think like a bunch of losers man. We gotta change our attitude. Stop talking and start ACTING like we’re ELITE.
1 : When comes the Help of Allah
2 : And you see that the people enter Allah’s religion (Islam) in crowds,
3 : So glorify the Praises of your Lord, and ask for His Forgiveness. Verily, He is the One Who accepts the repentance and forgives.
(Quran 110: 1-3)
Yeaaaaaaaaa boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
We doinnng it big
We the best! - DJ Khalid
lol
Alhamdulillah was once being spread by one single person our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW)… now the largest religon.
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To compare Catholicism and Islam doesn’t make sense. Catholics are a sect. Islam is a religion. When talking in sects, Catholicism and Sunni Islam are almost the same size at 17%, while Christianity is around 33%, making it much larger than Islam.
i love your blog. i’ve
tivoedblogrolled it.You dont get it do you…. the vatican time and time again has stated that CATHOLICISM is the ONLY AND TRUE CHRISTIANITY. FYI, i was catholic for 18 years, converted to Islam back in 2003.
^ALLAHU AKBAR!
If that is true, then we must apply that to Muslims too. Shia’s believe that Sunnis are not going to heaven, so they cannot be mixed with Sunnis. With that in mind, Sunnis only make up 16.3% to 17.2% of the world, making Catholics still larger with 17.4%.
Apples and oranges, folks. Christianity rules at 33% of the global population and Chuck is right. Besides, Christianity respects freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. Islam is totalitarian in nature. People everywhere just want to be free to think what they want.
To say Christianity supports freedom of speech and Islam doesn’t is to ignore the entire history of Christians and Muslims. Last time I checked intellectuals like Galileo during the Renaissance were killed by the Catholic Church. Not to mention the fact that the Christianity and Christians were the main reason 80% of Native Americans were killed off. And if talking in modern American terms, Christianity is what people used to justify racism against minorities and justify racial slavery.
You’re right. christianity still remains dominant. I’m aware of that. also. are you muslim? if you knew muslim doctrine, most muslims beleive that we should divide ourselves and say one muslim is going to hell. Shia islam as well as sunni does not have the heirarchy and structure the way catholicism has; yes, islam has been divided soo many times by “people” but one thing is for sure… every soo-called “sect” gathers together in worship of Allah in Mecca, Saudi arabia. Go to the vatican (catholicism capital city), you’ll hardley see protestant, greek orthodox and coptic christians praying side by side in unity and same mind together the way muslims have done (regardless of differences) for many many years during the hajj. But again, Christianity still remains dominant in numbers; mostly coming from Latin America; read up on the history of how latin america became the powerhouse of Catholicism (Gold, God, Glory). The gold that was used to build the ornaments and idols of saints in spanish/portuguese churches came from america; they melted the incan, aztec, caribs and other native american gold jewelry/crowns/idols. Thats why europe in GENERAL is as rich as they are today; exploiting and stealing by way of the catholic imperial church. Columbus was catholic.. and so were most of the european conquistadors.
My theory is that christianity was spread by 3 main factors in Americas.
(1) Because GOD was depicted as WHITE; purity and innnocence. The same could be applied in the Phliippine Islands. To this day, black is seen as ugly and white is seen as beauty. this ideology stems from the WHITE depictions of Jesus(pbuh) and Mary(pbuh). If god were depicted as a true semite; im sure not many nordic/germanic europeans during antiquity would have converted en masse into christianity knowing their god was brown and dark. FYI, read the chronicles of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan and how he was seen a dirty (brown skin) amongst the northern europeans.
(2) By force; remember montezuma was tied up ready to be burned to the stake? The spanish wanted to know where the gold was. His wife wanted to STOP THE EXECUTION, so she married a spanish conquistador and told the spanish where the GOLD WAS!!! When montezuma was forced to convert to christianity; he said: “IF heaven is full of you people, id rather be in hell!” So they burned him alive; despite finding the hidden montezuma gold.
I meant TWO.. not three (3)
1. Yes Ayoub I Am Muslim, but I am a revert just like you.
2. Yes I know Catholcism spreading invovled a lot of killing and cheating. Thats what I told Connie.
3. My argument was that if Catholics can’t be put with Protestants, then Shia’s can’t be put with Sunnis for the same reasons. Shia Islam is structured very similarly to Catholicism, with a Supreme Leader, appointed clerics, etc. To say that Shia’s have no hierarchy is a very misinformed thought. My point was that Shia’s believe that Sunnis are VERY deviated and that they support murderers, meaning Sunnis are hellbound (but in the end Allah judgement overrules all), Yes Sunnis and Shias “come together” for Hajj, but Shias still believe that Sunnis are misguided.
im at ork right now, so ill make this short.
Where is this heirarchy of shiaism??? IRAN??
I would talk to some local Shia friend if I were you. If that isn’t possible, simply scroll the Wikipedia article about Shia Islam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imamah_%28Shi%27a_twelver_doctrine%29
it’s inevitable really.
dont worry we will make up that defecit…my friend is getting married soon. lol Its funny how .2 % is so significant at certain times.
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