Huffington Post today quoted some stats from the Pugh Foundation about the most racially diverse religious groups...and entirely forgot to mention the Bahá'í Faith! According to Encyclopedia Britannica, we are the second most widely spread religion on the planet (because by grouping all the many sects of Christianity as one organization, it comes in first). The Bahá'í sacred texts are translated into way more than 2000 languages, and there is just about no continent or country without believers.

Now, it is possible that the article's author put the Bahá'ís as a sect of Islam, but then why break out numbers for several sects of Christianity? And, perhaps the number of adherents wasn't enough to make the list, being not quite 10 million worldwide.

Still, I'm feeling left out!


Cheryll Schuette
Bahá'í Site