On the occasion of the 99th World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, with the theme “Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples,” the Vatican news agency Fides presented some statistics ...

New data from the Annuario Pontificio 2026 and Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2024 highlight trends in baptized populations ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic country, saw its Catholic population decline further in 2022 while evangelical Christians and those with no religion continued to ...

The percentage of Brazilians who identify as Catholic fell to 56.75% in 2022, a reduction of 8.4% compared with 2010, according to data from the 2022 demographic census released by the Brazilian ...

On paper, Catholicism looks like it’s having a moment. The global Catholic population has surpassed 1.4 billion. Eucharistic processions are drawing record crowds. And last summer, more than 50,000 ...

In one of his first interviews as Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born pontiff discussed with NBC News’ Lester Holt the impact that a first-ever American pope may have in the United States, where data ...

As of 2020, Singapore had approximately 395,000 Catholics, accounting for roughly 6 percent of the country's population of around 5.7 million. It marked an increase of 5.8 percent between 2010 and ...