Pope Benedict XVI baptizes ex-Muslim Magdi Allam on Easter Sunday. Muslims, however, now outnumber Catholics.
Muslims surpass Catholics: Will interfaith dialogue follow?
Demographic changes are reshaping the world's religions. The Vatican on Sunday reported that Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion.
"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. (Christianity as a whole, however, remains the dominant world religion.)
"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.
The news comes as Catholics and Muslims prepare to launch an unprecedented interfaith dialogue. Should the shifting population change the course of dialogue? Do Christians have anything to worry about? How does the rising Muslim population change the way Americans think about Islam and the war on terrorism? Does the changing face of world religion give new impetus to efforts to promote religious tolerance and peace?
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May God Help You
Submitted on April 7th, 2008 by Anonymousyou have visioned this with very narrow scope.No Mohammad(PBUH) message had been altered to have power you should study the religion first (Christianity & Islam )then have some comments about it. You haven't mentioned any evidence. if Muslims are outnumbered then its a threat to world but when it was Christianity there was no threat, this is totally one sided view. Christianity being the worlds largest religion have given deadliest wars to humanity as we see in Iraq ,Afghanistan ,this is crusade. Christianity seeking power.
Ugliness of Falsified Religion
Submitted on April 3rd, 2008 by AnonymousIslam is not a religion. It is a means of control. Control by numbers.
But Islam is not the only religion, not to be a religion. Christianity is also not a religion. It is a means of control.
The messages of Mohammed and Jesus both altered so men could gain power and control.
Why is there such a emphasis on number? The followers of religions are not just troops and if you become outnumbered you are at threat.
The Islamic Jihad and the Christian Crusade have never stopped.
In Malaysia a supposedly tolerant Islamic nation, people are being converted into Muslims without even there permission. If a person is dating a Muslim and is spotted by 3 people the person is officially (in the passport) converted into a Muslim. But this has real affects too, as at death the Islamic courts will collect the persons body and do the Islamic death rituals, even if the person is not a Muslim. If a person wants to convert away from Islam they must go to a Islamic Camp which is a prison and stay in there a year during which time, the Quran will be stuffed down there throats. Ultimatums like, either accept Islam or drink this acid are given. People have drank the acid and there throats have dissolved. The Islamic Courts in Malaysia are stronger than even the Government. There are economic benefits to being Muslim in Malaysia. In Malaysia a certain percentage of the executives have to be Muslim. Many of the big Malaysian companies are ran by ethnic Chinese who are not Muslim. This meant some of the executives had to convert to Islam to keep their jobs when the Islamic quota legislation was introduced. At the time the Islamic (Sharia) courts where not as powerful as they are now. The ethnic Chinese executives did not expect at the time that at there death there bodies would be taken from there families and the Islamic funeral rituals would be carried out. The Islamic Sharia courts in Malaysia and probably all over the world are converting people to Islam when they are not even Muslim.
In the United Kingdom, a operation funded by the Saudi Arabian government (often called the Kaur2Khan, Kumar2Khan or something else) is in operation by the Mosques in Britain. The goal of this operation is to convert young (often under age) girls into Islam. Muslims believe non-Muslims to be Kuffour and the Quran allows any means to convert and Kuffour into Islam. Young Muslim boys are given up to £7,000 (probably more now) for each girl they convert into Islam. They target mostly Sikh, Hindu and Christian girls. They use drugs, subversion, lies, blackmail to convert the girls. A common technique used is to dope a girl with drugs so that she looses her senses. Then the young male will rape her and record it. Then the young Muslim male will use it to blackmail the girl for more sexual exploits (this works well with young Sikh and Hindu girls who often come from conservative families). She is often shared with other Muslim males and sometimes placed into prostitution (note, child sex rackets in Blackburn, run by Muslim males). There have been cases of Girls being drugged to the extent that for months they have no recollection of what took place. In that time they are often married off to Muslim males. The sad thing is girls are then often excommunicated by their families and feel they have no way to escape. They can be brainwashed to the extent that they accept what has happened to them. The British Government know full well about this. But the only people truly caring about the implications of this is the Israeli Government in the form of Mossad. The British secret services are starting to take more notice now as the threat of Islamic terrorism has become more real after the attacks of July 7th in London. The worrying fact the government has come to realize is that although the terrorist attacks are not masterminded by Islamic converts they tend to be carried out by them. If you have any information, please release on WikiLeaks or reply to this message and I will get back to you.
I hope you pray for these girls, from what ever religion you are.
Muslims outnumber Catholics
Submitted on April 1st, 2008 by AnonymousMuslims outnumber Catholics
Written by wdmll on Mar-31-08 12:57am
It is a distressing day Muslims now outnumber Roman Catholics, therefore Islam is the largest faith in the world. This is not taking into account the different subsets of Christianity or Islam. Not that I think Catholicism is the only way to express your belief in God. However, all religions of the world and even Atheism should be concerned. Catholicism is a common thread in all Christianity and Islam has been trying to surpass Christianity since its inception. Catholicism has its roots in Istanbul Turkey. Christianity began in the Holy land of modern day Israel and Rome is considered the birthplace of the Roman Catholic Church. But Constantinople (modern day Istanbul Turkey) was the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire and was the center for the early Catholic Church in 330 A. D.; Emperor Constantine I had moved the capital of the Western Roman Empire (Rome) to the City of Constantinople where it became the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and later the Orthodox Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire (the City of Constantinople) fell to the Ottoman Muslim Empire in 1453. This was the result of the split of the Roman Catholic Church of Rome and the Eastern Orthodox Church of the East. Constantinople had been sacked during the fourth Crusade of 1204. The conquest of Constantinople had been an ongoing desire of Islam. So today, Constantinople is lost to Islam and now Muslims outnumber Roman Catholics. This revelation will be lost on the West but will be celebrated in every Mosque in the World. This might be the beginning of the end of Western Democracy, as we know it today. Sharia law will be waiting in the shadows. As the Muslim populations grow, so will the threat of Sharia law. We hear of the love and peace of Islam but the true intentions of Islam will be revealed to the nonbeliever.
Muslims now represent about 19% of the World population of 6.5 billion. Roman Catholics represent only about 17% of the World population. Christians of all denominations represent approximately a third of the World population.
Today, the Western World is caught up in the fast pace of chasing after the almighty dollar. Secularism, and the loss of the family unit plus declining Western populations, are leading to the dilemma of Islamic domination. It is not the threat of the Jihadist but the domination of the Muslim masses by the Jihadists. Is the West willing to lose its way of life, technology and freedoms? If the West doesn’t get its head out of the sand, it will find its head laying in the sand.
wdmll http://www.zimbio.com/Non-Politically+Correct+View+of+America's+Crisis/articles/173/Muslims+outnumber+Catholics
A matter of numbers...
Submitted on March 31st, 2008 by Chuck_JohnsonI would hazard a guess that there are many more observant Muslims than observant Catholics.
We, non-theists may be an endangered species.
But anonymous, really, the secular Left is much worse at imposing their morality on the rest of us. Abortion being the most perfect example of that enforced morality.
Chuck Johnson is a student at Claremont McKenna College. Feel free to contact him.
Christianity still larger.
Submitted on March 31st, 2008 by AnonymousIf you look at the numbers, Christianity is still the larger religion when you take all the faiths together.
Christians are going to have to have tolerance.
Submitted on March 31st, 2008 by AnonymousThey need to stop acting like they are the only religion in the world, especially in the United States. I'm so tired of the religious right setting moral policy in this country.