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Latin America – where the new pope comes from – is where more than 40% of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics reside. A Pew Research Center study on religions around the world says Latin America has 432 million Catholic worshippers, with 3 in 4 Latin American inhabitants saying they are Catholic. Brazil is the largest Catholic country in the world (134 million worshippers), followed by Mexico (96 million), Colombia (38 million), and Argentina (31 million). Catholics in the pope’s homeland represent a little more than 75% of the population.
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