Evangelical vote pushes Latin America to the right

Evangelical vote pushes Latin America to the right

By Rodrigo Almonacid (AFP) 1 hour ago.

The rise of Evangelicalism in Latin America has brought new power to conservative political movements, visible most recently in the shock defeat of a peace referendum in Colombia, experts say.

More and more Christians in traditionally Catholic Latin America are turning to Evangelical Protestant denominations, which have built a media-savvy empire of mega-churches over the past several decades.

Whereas just 10 percent of Latin Americans were raised Protestant, today nearly 20 percent describe themselves that way, according to the Pew Research Center in Washington.

And that is changing the political landscape in the region.

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