Africa Has More Catholics than Europe

Quoted Africa surpasses Europe in Catholic population; Church leaders highlight missionary role by Father Don Bosco Onyalla (EWTN News) According to the latest statistics published by Agenzia Fides, Africa’s Catholic population has now surpassed Europe’s, rising to 288.3 million compared with Europe’s 287.2 million. Africa now has the second-largest Catholic population, after the Americas, which the organization counts as one region. EWTN, citing to statistics compiled by Agenzia Fides, reports that Africa now has a larger Catholic population than Europe (288.3 million to 287.2 million). I would have guessed that was the case before reading, but now we have one measure. Agenzia Fides also reported on other regions: The Americas remain the continent with the largest Catholic population: 678,869,000, representing 64% of the continent’s population. Africa has 288,312,000 Catholics, surpassing Europe, where the total number is 287,240,000. Asia follows with 156,166,000 Catholics, while…