What's the world's fastest growing religion?
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Listen What the World says about the Fastest Growing Religion\n\n"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people..." [HILLARY RODMAN CLINTON, Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1996, p.3]\n\nAlready more than a billion-people strong, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion. [ABCNEWS, Abcnews.com]\n\n"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the country." [NEWSDAY, March 7, 1989, p.4]\n\n"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States..." [NEW YORK TIMES, Feb 21, 1989, p.1]\n\nMoslems are the world's fastest-growing group..."  [USA TODAY, The Population Reference bureau, Feb. 17,\n1989, p.4A ]\n\n"Muhummed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities. " [Encyclopedia Britannica]\n\n"There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now." [Dan Rathers, CBSNEWS]\n\n"Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America." [TIMES MAGAZINE]\n\n"Islam continues to grow in America, and no one can doubt that!" [CNN, December 15, 1995]\n\n"The Religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world."  [MIKE WALLACE, 60 MINUTES]\n\n"MUHUMMAD WAS THE SOUL OF KINDNESS, AND HIS INFLUENCE WAS FELT AND NEVER  FORGOTTEN BY THOSE AROUND HIM." A Hindu scholar [Diwan Chand Sharma in his "The Prophets of the East," Calcutta 1935, p. 122.]\n\n"FOUR YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF JUSTINIAN, A.D. 569, WAS BORN AT MAKKAH, IN ARABIA THE MAN WHO, OF ALL MEN EXERCISED THE GREATEST INFLUENCE UPON THE HUMAN RACE ... MOHAMMED ..." [John William Draper, M.D., LLD., in his "A History of the lntellectual Development of Europe",- London 1875.]\n\n"I DOUBT WHETHER ANY MAN WHOSE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS CHANGED SO MUCH EVER CHANGED HIMSELF LESS TO MEET THEM." [R. V. C. Bodley in "The Messenger,"- London 1946, p.9.]\n\n"I HAVE STUDIED HIM - THE WONDERFUL MAN - AND IN MY OPINION FAR FROM BEING AN ANTI-CHRIST, HE MUST BE CALLED THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY." [George Bernard Shaw, in "The Genuine Islam,- Vol. 1, No. 81936.]
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Sounds like a new religion is being formed. (Oh great, just what we needed!)
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china,with 102,000,000 buddhists.\nbut thailand leads with 95% of its population being buddhists.\nhttp://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_buddhist.html
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Dear. ISlam is the fastest growing religion in the world today. Its a true religion. more then 70% of quran has been proven scientifically correct and the rest is not proven yet. but not 1% is proven wrong.The best way is to study Islam. and if u need any resources please contact me on my email below. i'll try my best to find the topics u need. may God guide u to the right path.\nU must visit : \nhttp://www.irf.net/irf/comparativereligion/index.htm\nmy email is lion_mughal@yahoo.com
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Islam grows rapidly because people in Muslim nations are forced to convert or die.
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The beautiful thing about Islam is, that it is the fastest growing religion in the world and we don't even have to beg for it.
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At least 2000 years. Christianity is not yet civilized in that length of time.
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christian religion follow god \nbuddism follow stons and pagans
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No, actually it is growing in the West, despite the efforts of fanatics to block it from growth.  The numbers have been adjusted in the former Eastern block countries -- where atheism was the state "religion" for decades -- which may appear to cause a slight downtick overall -- but the key is to look at democratic socieites with freedom or quasi freedom of religion.  In those countries atheism has almost doubled, just since 1990.\n\nI personally, for the record, am a mainstream (Anglican) Christian.\n\nRegards,\n\nReynolds Jones\nSchenectady, NY\nhttp://www.rebuff.org
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Every January, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research publishes a “Statistical Table on Global Mission” — a detailed look at the world religious situation prepared by the mathematically indefatigable David Barrett. Absolute precision in these matters is impossible, but over the years, Barrett (an Anglican who teaches “missiometrics” at Regent University) has proven himself a judicious, reliable guide. Browsing his numbers reveals more than a few interesting things.\n\nChristian mission, for example, was essentially flat in the twentieth century. There were only 558 million Christians in the world in 1900 and there will be approximately 2 billion Christians by the middle of this year, a huge increase. But as a percentage of world population, Christianity has been treading water for a century: Christians were 34.5 percent of world population in 1900, and will be 33.1 percent in 2002.\n\nHalf of the world’s 2 billion Christians are Catholics. The next largest “megablock” of Christians is found in the denominationally-unaffiliated “Independent Churches,” which have some 400 million members — almost twice as many as the 217 million Orthodox believers in the world. Barrett counts 350 million denominationally-affiliated Protestants and another 80 million in the Anglican “megablock.” The relative positions of these “megablocks” within world Christianity will likely remain constant for the next quarter-century.\n\nEven as Christian population remained steady as a percentage of world population, other dimensions of Christian life changed dramatically in the twentieth century. Christians worshiped in 400,000 congregations in 1900; they can be found in 3.5 million parishes worldwide today. There were 300,000 books on Christianity published in 1900; 5.1 million such books will be published this year. The 3,500 Christian periodicals published in 1900 are a small fraction of the 35,000 Christian periodicals circulating today. Ten times as many Bibles will be distributed worldwide in 2002 as in 1900: 59 million versus 5.5 million. Christian organizations used some 1,000 computers in 1970; they use 332 million computers today. Charitable giving to Christian causes rose from $8 billion to $300 billion over the last century. Perhaps most strikingly, the number of Christian denominations skyrocketed, from some 1,900 a century ago to 35,500 today — one measure of the immensity of the ecumenical task in the twenty-first century.\n\nChristianity became much more an urban phenomenon in the twentieth century. In 1900, only 28 percent of the world’s Christians lived in cities. This year, 58 percent of the global Christian population will be urban dwellers.\n\nThe communications revolution also made a dramatic impact on Christian life: today, 2.5 billion people watch and listen to Christian broadcasts every month, a number Barrett expects will increase to 3.8 billion by 2025. Only 750 million were tuning-in thirty years ago, and of course no one was in 1900.\n\nThe total of what Barrett calls “distinct religions” has shot up from 1,000 in 1900 to 10,500 today, and will likely increase to 15,000 in a quarter-century. While this extravagant growth in new religions refutes the notion that the modern world is inevitably becoming secular, new religious movements are also a serious challenge to interreligious dialogue. The existing difficulties of Christian-Buddhist, Christian-Hindu, and Christian-Muslim dialogue will be magnified in dialogues with such rapidly growing “new religions” as the Vietnam-based Cao Dai (which blends Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism with themes from the Bible and the Qu’ran, while styling its leader the “Pope” and its headquarters the “Holy See”), and the Ahmadi Muslims, who claim that Jesus escaped the cross and died in India at age 120.\n\nIslam is the fastest growing major religion in the world today. From a population base of 200 million in 1900, Islam grew more th
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Where? In the world? The U.S.? Boise, Idaho?\n\nChristianity was the largest world religion in 1910, followed closely by Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.  Most world Christians were Catholics, but in the U.S. and northwest Europe Catholics were a minority.
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Islam is the latest, complete, and best religion.\nKindly visit the following general websites:\nharunyahya.com\nAllaahuakbar.net\nirf.net
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This is no a single reason.\n\nUSA started as a rebellion against England and deviated from Victorian values. Church was one factor.\n\nIn a span of about two hundred years the USA got technological and material lead but individuals started feeling lonely and depressed. \n\nAs reaction USA passed through the phase of individual life, drugs and having no satisfaction found way to homosexuality. \n\nOn the whole spirit of man felt more and more tortured.\n\nReligions have an appeal for the human spirit. \n\nIslam is found to be the most comprehensive, multidimensional and scientific religion so among a general trend of appeal to the religions, Islam is presently getting lead to all other religions. \n\nHowever, I believe the growth of Islam in USA must be less than the rate of population growth so despite, so assumed, fastest growing religion, it is not likely to change the composition of the society.
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The most religious by total number or per capita? The most religious per capita would be any from Texas to Virginia, or the Bible Belt. There's a church on nearly any back road you travel, small, but a church, unique in the South. It's hard to find someone that even uses a swear word!
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1.  Christianity: 2.1 billion\n   2. Islam: 1.3 billion\n   3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n   4. Hinduism: 900 million\n   5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n   6. Buddhism: 376 million\n   7. primal-indigenous: 300 million\n   8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n   9. Sikhism: 23 million\n  10. Juche: 19 million\n  11. Spiritism: 15 million\n  12. Judaism: 14 million\n  13. Baha'i: 7 million\n  14. Jainism: 4.2 million\n  15. Shinto: 4 million\n  16. Cao Dai: 4 million\n  17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n  18. Tenrikyo: 2 million\n  19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n  20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n  21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand\n  22. Scientology: 500 thousand\n\nAnddespite what the muslimssay, they are way behind and will NEVER catch upto the catholics
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Aproximately 708,349,411 of followers.\nThe top Buddhist countries are:\n1. China: 308,000,000.\n2. Japan:  90,000,000.
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"Fastest growing" and "biggest" are not the same.  NASCAR is big (here in the States) but not growing at the rate of say, drifting, which has doubled it's fan base in the last 2 years or so.  \n\nBut if you go purely on percentage, I'd say the fastest growing motorsport is Competitive Hood Jumping.  It involves taking a running start at my neighbor's old 92 Miata, and jumping over the hood of the car without damaging the aluminum hood.  Points off (and bad form) if you leave a giant butt-print in the hood.  It had a fan base of 1 (me) yesterday, but this morning I got my other neighbor involved and he really digs it.  So now we have 2.  that's 100% growth in 24 hours.  Match that, NASCAR!\n\nSeriously though, everyone like to claim to be the biggest or fastest growing, but ultimately, you can probably make a claim about pretty much anything, if you just define your terms properly.  Hood Jumping included.