Seminarian and priest numbers are booming in the global south. Which is very good news since Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians now make up 60% of the Catholics in the world.
Seminarian numbers have mushroomed in every single South and Central American and Caribbean county since 1972. The average growth is 371% between 1972 and 2008. But five countries have seen growth rates in that 36 year period that stagger the imagination.
El Salvador: 1,406%
Bolivia: 1,353%
Dominican Republic: 1,339%
Venzuela: 1,064%
Peru: 1,004%
Overall, Latin American seminarians have grown from 5,334 to 25,108 since 1972.
My comment: I hope we will soon see them start A Mission to Britain and Ireland
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