The European continent lost nearly half a million Catholics in the last year and it is an increasingly older group
Vocations of priests and nuns also fall, although the number of Church institutions and the people they assist increase
The Vatican published this Thursday an analysis of the statistics of Catholics in the world in which it celebrates that “the number has increased constantly over the last 25 years.” Indeed, in In 1998 there were 1,018,257,000 Catholics, 17.4% of …
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