Catholic Church in Yemen

Church of St. Francis of Assisi on the harbour front of Aden in the 1960s

The Catholic Church in Yemen is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

Christians as a group make up 0.06% of Yemen’s population. Most of these are Orthodox Christians.

In 2020, there were four hundred Catholics in the country, which included one priest and eight nuns.[1] There are also approximately 2,500 Catholics who are temporary foreign workers or refugees.[2][3]

The Catholic Church in Yemen forms part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia.[4]

  1. ^ Catholics And Culture website, Retrieved 2023-07-05
  2. ^ The Association of Religion Data Archives website, Retrieved 2023-07-05
  3. ^ "Yemeni leader to meet with Pope". Catholic World News. 2004-11-24. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  4. ^ "Holy See sets relations with Yemen". Catholic World News. 1998-10-12. Retrieved 2013-02-05.

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