Christianity is world’s largest religion, says Pew Forum survey

By JohnThomas Didymus 20/12/2011 Christianity is the world’s largest religion, so says a new Pew Forum Survey called “Global Christianity.” According to the survey, about half of all the world’s Christians are Catholics, with Protestants accounting for 37%, and Orthodox Christians 12%. The Pew Forum reports about one-third of the world’s people, that is, 2.2 billion, are Christians and about one-third of the total number of Christians in the world live in the West. The countries with the largest Christian population are the U.S., Brazil and Mexico.