Posted on 11/25/2016 6:44:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
Norway’s official statistics agency says the country’s Roman Catholic and Muslim communities have added tens of thousands of members in recent years while the state Lutheran Church is declining.
Statistics Norway said Friday the number of Catholics has jumped 42 percent since 2012, to 145,000 this year.
Membership in Islamic groups rose by 32 percent to 148,000 in the same period. Those figures were not broken down by denomination. …
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beware, Norsemen
be very very wareful
you will soon have to be warful, too
unless you repatriate all those Islamics your government’s been letting in
study history. learn from it. those that do not are doomed to repeat it.
**Norway said Friday the number of Catholics has jumped 42 percent since 2012, to 145,000 this year. **
Can they keep up with the Muslims?
They’re apparently ahead of the Muslims by 10 percent thus far.
Muslims-------148,000
Catholic-------145,000
Ahead? How do you figure?
**Statistics Norway said Friday the number of Catholics has jumped 42 percent since 2012, to 145,000 this year.
Membership in Islamic groups rose by 32 percent to 148,000 in the same period. Those figures were not broken down by denomination.**
The article lists the percentage increases.
Not in numbers, but in terms of growth. Article says increase of 42 percent versus Islam’s 32 percent.
Seems a little misleading, in the sense that whenever you have a state church you are starting with a population of 100%: there’s nowhere to go but down from there.
The Catholic Faith or the Modernist Religion of the Vatican?
Only one of these is actually Catholic. And I highly doubt this is the faith that has increased in numbers in Norway.
I would guess pretty much 100 percent of the catholic growth is constituted by Polish immigrants.
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