Protestant churches welcome Hispanics

“Like Orellana, many Latin Americans are defecting from Catholicism, the dominant religion in Latin America. Scholars say an exodus to Protestantism — especially to evangelical and Pentecostal sects — took off in Brazil in the 1970s and spread throughout South and Central America. Recent studies peg the number of Protestants in Latin America at anywhere from 15 percent to 25 percent of the population — and growing.

Protestantism also is surging among Latino immigrants in the United States — 30 percent of Hispanics in the U.S., an estimated 10.6 million, are non-Catholics.”

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