Saturday, 3 May 2008

Allen 3

"Brazil, officially the largest Catholic country in the world with 149 million faithful, loses half a million Catholics every year. Some 83 percent of Brazilians called themselves Catholic in 1991,while today the number is 67 percent."1

1J. Allen Jr., 'Evangelical Strength in Latin America is Homegrown', National Catholic Reporter August 25, 2006, 1213, 12.

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