From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 02:50:08 -0700 (PDT), simo.runnel@gmail.com wrote:

(reformatted for ease of reading)

How important is Catholicism in South Africa? I know, that the
colonists came from Netherlands and Great Britain. Many of them were Protestants. According to the book "The World in Figures" in 1970
among the population of South Africa was 61% Christians, 13% members
of Bantu churches, 2% Hindus, 1% Moslems and 1 % Jews. But it does not
say, how many of the Christians were Catholics.

Simo Runnel,
Estonia
--
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)

From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 02:50:08 -0700 (PDT), simo.runnel@gmail.com wrote:

How important is Catholicism in South Africa? I know, that the
colonists came from Netherlands and Great Britain. Many of them were >Protestants. According to the book "The World in Figures" in 1970
among the population of South Africa was 61% Christians, 13% members
of Bantu churches, 2% Hindus, 1% Moslems and 1 % Jews. But it does not
say, how many of the Christians were Catholics.

Those figutres are nearly 50 years old.

According to more recent statistics, about 86% of the population claim
to be Christian.

The Roman Catholic Church is the third biggest group, after the Zion
Christian Church and the Dutch Reformed Churches.

The Roman Catholic Church has something over 3 million members, about
7% of the population.


--
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)

neljapäev, 2. november 2017 6:00.47 UTC+2 kirjutas Steve Hayes:

Race and Catholicism in South Africa

How important is Catholicism in South Africa? I know, that the colonists came from Netherlands and Great Britain. Many of them were Protestants. According to
the book "The World in Figures" in 1970 among the population of South Africa was 61% Christians,
13% members of Bantu churches, 2% Hindus, 1% Moslems and 1 % Jews. But it does not say, how many of the Christians were Catholics.

Simo Runnel,
Estonia

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)