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On Friday 23 March at 12 Noon there will be “Stand Up for Religious Liberty” rallies all over the USA.
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Vatican Says Number of Catholics, Priests, Bishops Worldwide Increased
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The number of Catholics in the world and the number of deacons, priests and bishops all increased in 2010, while the number of women in religious orders continued to decline, according to Vatican statistics. At the end of 2010, the worldwide Catholic population reached 1.196 billion, an increase of 15 million or 1.3 percent, slightly outpacing the global population growth rate, which was estimated at 1.1 percent, said a statement published March 10 by the Vatican press office. Catholics as a percentage of the global population "remained stable at around 17.5 percent," it said. The statement reported a handful of the statistics contained in the 2012 "Annuario Pontificio," a yearbook containing information about every Vatican office, as well as every diocese and religious order in the world. Officials of the Vatican Secretariat of State and its Central Office of Church Statistics presented the first copy of the 2012 yearbook to Pope Benedict XVI during an audi
Test of Fire: Election 2012 (Official HD Version - Catholic)
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