Fact of the Day: More Muslims than Catholics

Muslims more numerous than Catholics

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said yesterday.

"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.

Source: Yahoo News