BIG INCREASE IN NUMBER OF CATHOLICS
LONDON,October 4.—The Vatican City correspondent of the United Press says that there are now 423,000,000 Roman Catholics in the world — •an increase of 119,000,000 in the last 20 years. The Vatican radio, announcing this, added that the number of Roman Catholics in Africa had trebled in that period and that there had been great increases in Asia. India, and South America.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 6
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