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Pope Francis struggles to keep fellow Latin Americans in Catholic fold.
Despite a high-profile first year as the head of the Vatican, Pope Francis has not been able to stem the tide of fellow Latin Americans turning away from Catholicism and toward Evangelicalism, or secularism in more prosperous countries...
The Church’s child sex-abuse scandals and a perception that it is out of touch with today’s concerns has opened the door to a rise in Evangelicalism, especially among the region’s poor and in Central America...
Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2014/04/16/pope-francis-struggles-to-keep-fellow-latin-americans-in-catholic-fold-poll/
Despite a high-profile first year as the head of the Vatican, Pope Francis has not been able to stem the tide of fellow Latin Americans turning away from Catholicism and toward Evangelicalism, or secularism in more prosperous countries...
The Church’s child sex-abuse scandals and a perception that it is out of touch with today’s concerns has opened the door to a rise in Evangelicalism, especially among the region’s poor and in Central America...
Source: http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2014/04/16/pope-francis-struggles-to-keep-fellow-latin-americans-in-catholic-fold-poll/