This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1.2 billion Catholics world-wide is calculated.
He also tests the claims of the controversial video, 'Muslim Demographics' shown at the Vatican by the Ghanaian Papal candidate Cardinal Peter Turkson.
Published on Monday, 25th February 2013.
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