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RISE IN CATHOLICS IN AFRICA

THE Catholic Church is losing followers in Europe, but numbers are booming in Africa and the Americas, according to figures released by the Vatican yesterday. At the end of 2019 there were 1.34 billion Catholics worldwide, representing 17.74% of the global population. This is up

15.4 million on the year previously. The number of followers in Europe fell by

292 000 over 2019, to 285.6 million.

But another 8.3 million Catholics was recorded in Africa. There were another 5.4 million in the Americas. |

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