Philippines leads world in number of Catholic baptisms aleteia.org

The Philippines, the country that is celebrating 500 years since Christianity was introduced, is also the country with the most Catholic baptisms of children under the age of 7.

“Throughout 2019, there were more than 1.6 million baptisms of children under 7 in the Philippines,” reported Catholic News Service, basing the report on the Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican’s annual “Statistical Yearbook.”…

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