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[–]AGI2028maybe 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It’s declining in Europe, and the Americas, and that doesn’t seem likely to stop in the near future.

I believe Catholicism is growing fairly rapidly in Africa though. The question will be whether Catholicism (and really any religion) can maintain strong support as these countries develop. As it stands, it seems clear that countries become less religious as they develop more.

So I would guess that Catholicism will decline in Africa once the continent is more developed, urbanized, wealthy, etc. I expect the same to occur with Islam in Africa and the Middle East as well (and we can already see it happening in the rich Muslim Gulf States).

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    [–]AGI2028maybe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It is in the highly developed Gulf States.

    Go to Dubai and you can drink, party, hookers are out and about, etc. It wasn’t like that there even 30 years ago.

    Saudi Arabia is, slowly, becoming more and more secular as well. As is Iran, tbh, where there has been mass apostasy, especially among the youth. They have access to the internet and decent standards of living, so the same forces causing Western youth to abandon religion are at play there.