Liberal Protestant churches are shrinking, and the percentage of Catholics among the world population is diminishing, said Idea, a publication of the German Evangelical Alliance. Than You Think. The increase can be attributed almost entirely to evangelicals, Johnstone said. The relatively weak growth of the Roman Catholic Church could be attributed to losses due to the secularization of Europe and the conversion of Catholics to evangelical churches in Latin America, he said. Evangelical growth was most obvious in Catholic Latin America in the 1970s, and since the turn of the century the number of evangelicals has grown from fewer than 250,000 to about 40 million.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
A man asked God how long a million years was to Him. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. No millionaires among these, one notices.