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The LDS Church is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement, with membership estimated at 16.6 million as of December 31, 2020. [7] The LDS Church was estimated to have received tithing donations totaling between $7 billion [8] [9] and $33 billion [10] USD in the year 2012 (equivalent to $9.3 billion to $43.8 billion in 2023 [11]).
The Council of Trent, which was held after the Reformation, taught that "tithes are due to God or to religion, and that it is sacrilegious to withhold them", [31] but the Catholic Church no longer requires anyone to give ten percent of income. [32] The Church simply asks Catholics to support the mission of their parish. [33]
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A map of Catholicism by population percentage. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. [1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022.
Membership reported by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on December 31, 2023, was used to determine the number of members in each state. [1] The church defines membership as: [4] "Those who have been baptized and confirmed." "Those under age nine who have been blessed but not baptized."
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Eventually the LDS Church obtained the backing of investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to issue bonds backed by the labor of Utah residents. [8] Shortly after Lorenzo Snow became president of the church in 1898, he began reemphasizing the payment of tithing (giving 10% of one's income to the church); by 1907 the church was out of the debt it had ...