Muslims population numero Uno in World

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.


"Forthe first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims haveovertaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview withthe Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles theVatican's yearbook.

He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4percent of the world population -- a stable percentage -- while Muslimswere at 19.2 percent.

"It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children,