Monday mornings are often quiet times at work but I thought I would quickly share you a pronouncement from the Vatican in the hope you will become a little more jovial.  Those characters over at the Vatican and now stated that Islam has now overtaken Catholicism the world’s largest single religious denomination.

This pronouncement came on March 31st in The Times but I have just heard about it so I’m sure I’m not the only one who didn’t know

“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us.” He said that figures for 2006 showed that Catholics accounted for 17.4 per cent of the world population while Muslims accounted for 19.2 per cent.

“While Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer”. He said the figure for the Muslim global population was derived from data submitted to the United Nations by Muslim countries.

However Christians as a whole, including Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and Anglicans make up 33 per cent of the world population. Mosnignor Formenti said Latin America remained “the stronghold” of Catholicism, and the American continent as a whole had nearly half the world’s total. He noted the decline in numbers of Catholic priests, and said the number of nuns was also suffering a “drastic reduction”.

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad would be very happy to hear this news too as he said Allah ’s religion will spread around the world.  Thauban (ra) reported that he said:

“Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake. And I have seen its eastern and western ends. And the dominion of my Ummah would reach those ends which have been drawn near me …“ Sahih Muslim 6904

May Allah bless this Ummah with strong Iman and yaqeen and make us of those who have good character. amin

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