Catholic Church in Yemen

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. There are also approximately 2,500 Catholics who are temporary foreign workers or refugees.

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

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