Where do you get your numbers from ??. Actually got looked the numbers up. Your full of it by a long way. Now you will say 'but there is lots of room to grow in number...' or some such.
edit; Do you mean the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association which in the Chinese regimes version of 'Catholicism' which reject the papacy and designate their own bishops. Plus China's numbers are only est at between 6-12 million of both Catholic and Protestant creeds which is massively outnumbered by multiple other nations of the world. Biggest growth ??. Again pure speculative bs. Your delusional if you think Catholics are gonna somehow 'defeat' the CCP - just like how the uigyars got played.
If by 33 AD I told you the apostles of Christ would convert the entire Roman Empire in two hundred years after many sacrifices, you'd say the same thing.
Nope, just stop it. You claimed China had the worlds largest amount of Catholics then added that China has the biggest market for growth. One claim is verifiably horseshit the other claim is highly likely to be horse-shit. I asked you 'where you get your numbers from' and that what you said was provably false and now you deflect with some after the fact prediction of 'roman empire/ early catholic history'. BTW - the apostles also provably didn't convert the entire roman empire - it was just that Catholicism became a state approved religion after 'early Christianity from the mandates of Justinian' and so of course Catholicism - (of the papacy wasn't the same as 'early Christianity of rome' by hundreds of years - so stop conflating the two) therefore became the largest in the empire - although historically, we know there were still many adherents to the old ways (pagans , barbarians, heretics et al) all over the empire with significant uprisings and scorched earth policies bc of that from the time. So again you talking absolute unfounded rubbish ....
You are misrepresenting what I said.
Out of all countries in the world, China has the most Catholics. And out of all countries, the number of Catholics rises the most in raw numbers there, too. I know it sounds absurd, and I doubted that myself when I saw the numbers. But if even official numbers claim that, the true, non-official must be even higher.
You need to research into the persecutions of Christians in the Roman Empire before you claim this was solely an administrative issue.
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