The future of the Catholic Church is moving to Africa
While pews sit empty across Europe, a massive demographic shift is pulling the center of gravity for one of the world's oldest institutions toward the equator.
The Catholic Church is undergoing its most significant geographic transformation in centuries as its population explodes across the African continent. In 2000, there were roughly 119 million Catholics in Africa, but that number has surged to over 280 million today. Meanwhile, the traditional heartlands of Europe have seen their congregations wither by nearly twenty percent.
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