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As in North America, Europe, and parts of the Asia-Pacific region, disaffiliation drove much of the religious change that has occurred across Latin America and the Caribbean since 2010. In many Latin ...
Many of the findings about religion in Latin America mirror trends seen among Hispanics in the United States. Nearly a quarter of U.S. Hispanics (24%) were raised Catholic but have since left the ...
The SUNY Cortland campus community is invited to join a discussion of the adaptations of many religions in Latin America. Maria Klara Ventura, an Multicultural Life and Diversity Office intern and ...
Through a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Fr. Morello led a team of colleagues from universities in Argentina, Peru, and Uruguay, who interviewed more than 250 individuals in three Latin ...
The Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America—close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian ...
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.
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).
More than 500 women and men religious, and some lay Catholics, attended the IV Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Religious Life Nov. 24-26 to share experiences in consecrated life. (GSR ...
However, it never gained traction in Latin America and faded in the U.S. during World War II. Recent shift Latin America’s ambivalence toward holidays to commemorate the colonizers has taken a ...
In a meeting of women and men religious from Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn proposed a "new beginning" that would include groups of consecrated life from all ...
A plethora of religious iconography fill the National Museum of American History's new exhibit, Religion in Early America.From left to right, an 18th century Torah scroll, a 17th century Catholic ...
Relicarios began to fall out of favor in Latin America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Ms. Egan noted, in part because of anticlerical sentiments and a growing independence movement ...
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