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发帖数: 29846 | 1 A new analysis spells out how the Christian population is shrinking in
Europe, while growing dramatically in Africa and elsewhere.
Europe is now home to about a quarter of the world's Christians, compared to
two-thirds a century ago. About one-quarter of the Christian population is
now found in sub-Saharan Africa. More than a third is in the Americas.
Overall, Christians remain the largest religious group in the world, with
nearly 2.2 billion people. Muslims are the second-largest group, with about
1.5 billion adherents.
The smallest concentration of Christians is found in the region where the
faith began, the Mideast and North Africa, where Christians are only about 4
percent of the population.
The study was released Monday by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion
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