Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.
The problem, of course, is that Islam is not a single religious denomination. A proper comparison would be between all of Islam and all of Christianity, and there, the ratio remains about the same as it's been for a while: about 2 to 1 in favor of Christians. (The article offers no hard figures, but guesses at a ratio of 2 billion Christians to 1.3 billion Muslims.)
Beware false comparisons!
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