Review of the press for January 12, 2022
The Vatican is losing in Latin America. From July, Catholics will be a minority in Brazil. Boom in illegal gold mining in indigenous Yanomami reserves. FARC dissidents kill 2 police officers. Mexico
The Vatican is losing in Latin America. From July, Catholics will be a minority in Brazil.
For centuries, being Latin American meant being Catholic; the religion had virtually no competition. Today, Catholicism has lost adherents to other faiths in the region, especially Pentecostalism, and more recently to non-believers. The shift continued with the fir…