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Believers gather at the Namugongo Shrine for the Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on June 3, 2024, in Uganda. The Catholic population in Africa surpassed 272.4 million people in 2022 after seeing a rise of more than 7.3 million people — the largest increase of any continent, according to Vatican statistics released in October 2024.

Vatican statistics: Catholic population shrinks in Europe, rises everywhere else

Oct 18, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The Catholic population decline coincided with a total population reduction on the continent, which recorded a net loss of 517,000... Read more

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Believers gather at the Namugongo Shrine for the Martyrs’ Day Pilgrimage on June 3, 2024, in Uganda. The Catholic population in Africa surpassed 272.4 million people in 2022 after seeing a rise of more than 7.3 million people — the largest increase of any continent, according to Vatican statistics released in October 2024.

Vatican statistics: Catholic population shrinks in Europe, rises everywhere else

Bishop José Libardo Garcés Monsalve of Cúcuta, Colombia.

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Pope Francis prays with members of the Synod on Synodality during one of its meetings in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on the morning of Oct. 12, 2024.

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Vacated in 2021 when the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity order consolidated, the convent at St. Alphonsus Parish in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood now offers private rooms and shared common areas to teachers and ministry professionals, usually within their first five years of service.

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The painting St. Luke the Evangelist in Iglesia El Buen Pastor Church by Miguel Vaguer (1959).

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