About the video: Which is the true religion, Christianity or Islam?

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters Sun Mar 30, 2008) - " Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday.

Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent.

"For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us," Formenti told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano in an interview, saying the data referred to 2006.

He said that if all Christian groups were considered, including Orthodox churches, Anglicans and Protestants, then Christians made up 33 percent of the world's population - or about 2 billion people.

The Vatican recently put the number of Catholics in the world at 1.13 billion people. It did not provide a figure for Muslims, generally estimated at around 1.3 billion.

Formenti said that while the number of Catholics as a proportion of the world's population was fairly stable, the percentage of Muslims was growing because of higher birth rates.

He said the data on Muslim populations had been compiled by individual countries and then released by the United Nations, adding the Vatican could only vouch for its own statistics. "

According to the recent report from the Vatican, Islam has now surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest Religion. However when considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians are still the largest in numbers but declining in the long run.

Representing the Muslim perspective was Adam Deen: Adam is a former Islam channel presenter and intellectual activist who has been working in the field of Muslim apologetics for almost a decade.

He has contributed to debates on issues ranging from ethics, to religious philosophy and theology.

He is currently completing a degree in Philosophy at Birbeck University.

Representing the Christian side was Robert Scott: Robert has been working at St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, London for the last few years coordinating the support for St Helen's missionaries, teaching the Bible to international students

The Topic of Debate: What makes sense - Christianity or Islam?

Adam Deen (Adamdeen.blogspot.com)

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Robert Scott (from St Helen's Church, London)

(Birkbeck College, Bloomsbury, London, UK Friday 18th April 2008)