Boom of Evangelical Christianity in Latin America

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You hear the propaganda that Islam is gaining ground in Latin America, but that is a myth. What is really gaining ground in Latin America is Evangelical Christianity.

There were 50K in 1900s now there is 64 million! They are making gains across all of Latin America.

The dramatic growth of evangelicals in Latin America | National Catholic Reporter
atin American Protestants shot up from 50,000 in 1900 to 64 million in 2000, according to Evangelical scholar William Taylor, with Pentecostal and charismatic churches making up three-quarters of this number. In 1930, Protestants amounted to one percent of the Latin American population; today it's between 12 and 15 percent. A study commissioned in the late 1990s by CELAM, the federation of Latin American Catholic bishops' conferences, found that 8,000 Latin Americans were deserting the Catholic Church for Evangelical Protestantism every day.

Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world at 149 million, loses half a million Catholics every year. Protestants have grown from nine percent of Brazil's population in 1991 to 15.1 percent (some say as much as 22 percent), while the proportion of Catholics has dropped from 84 percent to 67 percent. In Mexico, 88 percent of a population of 102 million is now Catholic, a decline of 10 percent compared to the mid-20th century.

When the two largest Catholic countries in the world are hemorrhaging, something serious is afoot.

Catholicism is losing ground very rapidly to the better thread of Christianity.