Furthermore, other world religions have a strong presence in some Latin American nations. For example, Argentina has a population of around 180,000-300,000 Jews and over 800,000 Muslims.

The FINANCIAL — Latin America is home to more than 425 million Catholics – nearly 40% of the world’s total Catholic population – and the Roman Catholic Church now has a Latin American pope ...

“Latin America immigration is basically sustaining the Catholic Church in the US,” says Andrew Chesnut, a religion expert at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Religion: Lapsing Latin America. 3 minute read. TIME. January 18, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-5. T he Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America—close to ...

As a follow to the Pew survey documenting the rapid Protestantization of Latin America, my old TAC colleague Catherine Addington points to a 2007 piece by the leading Catholic journalist John L ...

Even worse, the church lacks the ecclesiastical manpower to serve the sheep still within the fold. The ratio of priests to laymen in Latin America is 1 to 5,600 (in the U.S. it is 1 to 785).

Texas Faith panelists are discussing today the influence that the Global South, which means Africa and Latin America, are having on religion in general. Asia is part of this discussion, too ...

In parts of Latin America, a region characterized by prevalent and profound religiosity, simply holding religious beliefs could be enough to obliterate one's civil and political rights.

For centuries, faith in Latin America has largely been synonymous with Catholic rites and rituals like this traditional religious procession through the streets of Guatemala City on the eve of ...

Surprisingly perhaps, given our customary assumptions about Latin America, conditions in several Latin American nations mirror those in the U.S. Increasingly these countries are developing a European ...

The challenges in Latin America are both immense and consequential for a church that hopes to renew its vitality through growth in Africa, Asia, and other parts of the developing world.

Most Latin Americans, meanwhile, know Oct. 12 as “Día de la Raza,” or Day of the Race, which also celebrates Columbus’ arrival in the New World and the tide of Iberian conquistadors that ...