The Philippines posted the most number of baptized young children in the world in 2019 and remains the most Catholic country in Asia, according to Annuario Pontificio, the Vatican’s statistical yearbook.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) quoted the Catholic News Service as reporting that more than 1.6 million children younger than 7 were baptized in 2019, according to the Annuario Pontificio.
Mexico came second with over 1.48 million baptisms, Brazil third with more than 1.05 million, then the United States with 595,286 and Colombia with 442,396, the report added.
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