East Africa has 2,949,000 Catholics now

FIGURES just issued by Arch bishop Mathew, Apostolic Delegate to British East and West Africa, show that the Catholic population of Ease Africa alone has now surpassed the total Catholic population of England and Wales.
In East Africa there are 2,949,033. In England and Wales the estimated total is 2,837,700.
Moreover, missionaries in East Africa--priests. brothers, sisters and native catechists—are preparing no fewer than 348,074 catechumens for baptism.
Another 382,0R3 catechumens are being instructed in British West Africa, where the total Catholic population. having increased by more than 67,000 in a year, is now 1,111,105.
East Africa consists of Kenya and Zanzibar. Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland. Northern Rhodesia, the Sudan, Somalia and Arabia.
Catholics in these areas range from well over a million m Uganda to 5,R52 in Arabia, where there are 26 catechumens.
West Africa includes Nigeria and the British Cameroons, the Gold Coast and Togoland, Sierra Leone and Gambia.
Also in the territory of the Delegation are the island of Mauritius and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Catholics here are approaching 200,000. Catechumens number 380.