On the Baha’i Faith Coming in Second to Islam: In growth from 2000-2005

By on Jun 7, 2009 in All categories

 bahaiviews  The Baha’i Faith in the U.S. grew by 2.6% in the last year. 4300 enrollments bringing total to 164,765. 11:13 PM Apr 27th from web
With information that was tweeted from the U.S. Baha’i National Convention, I retweeted what had been reported to delegates there that the Baha’i Faith grew by 2.6% in the U.S. in the past year. So is the Baha’i Faith the fastest growing religion in the world?
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The blog Catch Us Flying provided Statistics on fastest growing religion (2000-2005), excerpting from an article by the LA Times . According to the report, the fastest growing was Islam at 1.84%. Next was the Baha’i Faith at 1.70%. (Thanks NZ for calling this to my attention!)
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Baha’i are used to describing themselves as part of the second most widespread religion, second only to Christianity. If the report on percentage of growth in terms of membership is true, then Baha’s may claim second place in that category as well. -gw
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1 Comment(s)

  1. On Jun 8, 2009, george wesley dannells said:

    One of my Facebooks friends had this to say about this post:

    “growth according to total RNI vs conversion are two different things. PLUS, almost no muslim has the possibility or accessibility of converting, through informed choice, to another faith, so, there you go…. considering the stigma and popular notions of apostasy.”

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