Yes, and fastest in Africa. The Vatican counted just over 1.422 billion Catholics at the end of 2024, up 1.14 percent from about 1.406 billion in 2023, which kept Catholics at 17.8 percent of the world’s population. In Europe the number of Catholics rose only 0.8 percent, and the number of priests fell. The Vatican counts the baptized, so each of those numbers began with someone at a font. A century ago about two-thirds of the world’s Catholics lived in…

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