ISLAM - Biggest Single Religious Denomination in the World
Dr. Smile 30 March, 2008 
According to The Vatican sources published by Reuters, Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican’s newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world’s population and Catholics 17.4 percent.
“For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us,” Formenti told Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.
He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world’s population — or about 2 billion people.
The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.
He said the data on Muslim populations had been compiled by individual countries and then released by the United Nations, adding the Vatican could only vouch for its own statistics.
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wow thats a great find … Go Islam
I was researching the same thing when I saw this.. I can not agree more - but I am still going to look for a better source
Well yes this is the biggest religion around in today’s date and is spreading like wild fire .
Really? Well Islam has really go a long way. Despite all that hullabaloo and other stuffs
nothing like hullaboo and others can decrease 33% of the world population….its massive and still growing!