{"id":803,"date":"2015-04-05T01:25:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/803-muslims-to-surpass-christians-by-2070\/"},"modified":"2015-04-05T01:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T01:25:03","slug":"muslims-to-surpass-christians-by-2070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/803-muslims-to-surpass-christians-by-2070\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims to surpass Christians by 2070"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">Reflecting the rapid spread of Islam across the world, a new study found that the number of Muslims is expected to surpass that of Christians by 1% after 2070<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reflecting the rapid spread of Islam across the world, a new study found that the number of Muslims is expected to surpass that of Christians by 1% after 2070.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, Muslims will nearly equal Christians at mid-century, with a 30% increase in the followers of the peaceful faith.<\/p>\n<p>Both Islam and Christianity, the world&#8217; largest religious groups, will make more than 69% of the global population in 2100, rising from 61% in 2050 and 55% in 2010, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>The study also showed that Islam followers are rising globally, while unaffiliated populations are shrinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting the rapid spread of Islam across the world, a new study found that the number of Muslims is expected to surpass that of Christians by 1% after 2070 \u00a0 Reflecting the rapid spread of Islam across the world, a new study found that the number of Muslims is expected to surpass that of Christians &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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