Catholic church raised a cry of alarm, every year thousand of Catholics become J.W

steve2

Here are annual figures for JWs in Italy from JW Yearbooks. There is a trend of slowing down in growth, and in actual annual baptisms and memorial attendances, decline:
Year Av Publishers Baptisms Memorial
1998 224,504 7,809 385,387
2008 240,604 5,119 430,890
2013 247,259 4,766 460,990
2015 250,277 4,911 435,046
Apologies for lack of columning of figures - formatting is lost in post.
jwleaks

Pope shares a laugh after receiving report on JW trolley preaching. "Nothing to see here Your Holiness. Not even any interest."
Village Idiot

I think the Catholic Church is more worried about the hemorrhaging of its members by the hundreds of thousands and even millions to charismatic religions in Southern and Central America.