VATICAN CITY (Reuters) โ Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vaticanโs newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the worldโs population and Catholics 17.4 percent. โFor the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us,โ Formenti told Vatican newspaper LโOsservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.
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