Today, Jan. 16, is designated for holidays honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and World Religion Day. Here are some statistics about religion around the globe. IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION.

Muslims emerged as the fastest growing religious group in the world over 2010-2020, while the share of Christians - the world's largest religious group - in the global population fell by 1.8 ...

Though it remained the world’s largest religion, Christians declined percentage-wise among the world’s population between 2010 and 2020. Pew’s Global Religious Landscape study, ...

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, ... Nones grew by 4.1 percentage points in Latin America-Caribbean over the same period, and by 6.6 percentage points in Europe, ...

Though Christianity remains the world’s largest religious group, and the number of Christians grew over 10 years, representing 29% of the worldwide population, it declined by 1.8 percentage ...

The latest Pew report found that Islam outpaced every world religion in population from 2010 to 2020, though Christianity remained the largest globally. Thursday, July 10, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

A Pew Research Center report published last Thursday found that fewer Christians hold on to their religion than Muslims and Hindus. The findings carry significant implications for the future of ...

NEW YORK – A new study has found that in many countries around the world 20 percent or more of all adults have left their childhood religion, with Christianity and Buddhism being the religions ...