Today is Monday, March 4th, 2013; Karen's Korner #2516

Taken from "The Lookout" magazine, Sunday, March 3 edition:
 
The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life poll
found that Christianity is the religion with the most followers worldwide.
Thirty-two percent of the world's population, or 2.2 billion people are Christians.
Islam carried 23 percent of the population,
followed by Hinduism at 15 percent
and Buddhism at 7 percent.
 
According to the poll, half of the world's Christians are Catholics,
while 37 percent identify themselves as Protestant.
 
The largest share of Christians live in the United States at 11 percent,
followed by Brazil at 8 percent, Mexico at 5 percent,
Russia at 5 percent, and the Philippines at 4 percent.
 
Christians made up the majority of Europe, North America,
Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hindu and Buddhists were found mostly in the Asia-Pacific region,
while Muslims dominated the Middle East region.
 
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