Articles for tag: Hispanic

July 27, 2013

Christian Standard

¡Evangélicos Explosion!

By Brian Mavis “I really liked today”s Mass, Father.” If you are a preaching minister, you”ve probably been greeted like that after church. It”s not news that in the United States many former Catholics are attending and converting to Protestant churches. What is news, though, is that many of those Catholics aren”t from Irish or Italian decent””rather, they are Latinos.1 Latin America has been experiencing Latino conversions from Catholicism to Protestantism much longer than the U.S.: “¢ From 1900 to 2000 the number of Latin American Protestants swelled from 50,000 to 64 million! “¢ In 1930, Protestants amounted to 1

April 22, 2011

Christian Standard

¿Hablas Espanol?

By Kent E. Fillinger The odds are good that the face of your neighborhood has changed in the last decade, regardless of where you live, because “between 2000 and 2007 alone, the number of Hispanics grew in 2,991 of America”s 3,141 counties.”1 A recent Pew Research study said that “using 2009 population estimates from the American Community Survey, Hispanics accounted for 51 percent of the nation”s population growth since the 2000 Census. From 2000 to 2010, the nation”s population grew 9.7 percent. From 2000 to 2009 (the last year available), the Hispanic population grew 37 percent.”2 Another study said by

June 24, 2007

Christian Standard

La Convención Nacional Cristiana

By Marilyn Custer The National Christian Convention (Hispanic) began in 1984 when several church leaders in Texas and California felt the need to get together and have fellowship with one another. There is a national convention in Mexico that several of these leaders attended when they were growing up. They wanted something similar, so in July 1984 the first Hispanic convention took place in San Antonio, Texas. Feliciano Moreno was the president. For 10 years the convention was held primarily in Texas or Southern California. But since 2000 the convention has been held in Longmont, Colorado; Scottsbluff, Nebraska; Chicago, Illinois;

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