SAUL GONZALES: In Latin America, examples of Protestant Christianity's growing influence are everywhere, from massive, televised religious services where celebrity evangelists claim to channel God ...

If almost every adult in Latin America started life as a Catholic, it’s not surprising that so few are converting to Catholicism, versus Protestantism. It’s like the Republican Party in ...

Leaders of the new Protestantism are men with a passion for souls. Unlike many former Protestant leaders, they do not regard Latin America as a Roman Catholic preserve where her “no poaching ...

What is driving the advance of evangelical Protestantism in Latin America? Nov 15th 2014. Share. IT IS the Day of the Dead in Malinalco, a small Mexican town.

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When Americans discuss the great crisis facing the Roman Catholic Church, they usually are thinking of the notorious sex abuse scandals. Vatican authorities, though, worry more about another crisis, ...

Protestant missionaries first arrived in Latin America around 150 years ago in the 1870s. Today in Brazil and Guatemala, the evangelical population is at 41 percent and 31 percent respectively.

Instead, in the Latin America survey, we asked all respondents about their current religion, and we also asked them how they were raised as a child. When childhood religion differed from current ...

In Latin America, Protestantism covers many churches with many missions. The region is also home to about half of the world's almost 1.3 billion Catholics.

SANTIAGO, Chile — When evangelical sociologist David Stoll published his book Is Latin America Turning Protestant? in 1990, the title summarized what Latin American bishops thought was the ...

The share of Catholics in Latin America and among U.S. Hispanics is declining, according to two major Pew Research surveys, including a new poll on religion in 18 Latin American countries and Puerto ...