Posted on 09/04/2013 2:01:23 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) and the American Bible Society (ABS) are kicking off a three-year campaign to promote biblical fluency and literacy in the U.S. Hispanic community with Mes de la Biblia (Month of the Bible). With biblical illiteracy affecting 92 percent of the U.S. Latino community, the two organizations are challenging Hispanic churches and Hispanic Christians to commit to reading Scripture daily throughout September.
“We are inviting pastors and leaders to take action in the fight against biblical illiteracy, which threatens to destroy the principles and values on which our great nation was founded,” says Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of NHCLC, representing more than 40,000 churches and 16 million Hispanic evangelicals.
To provide culturally specific materials, ABS and NHCLC have created online downloadable Bible literacy resources, available at no cost to churches participating in Mes de la Biblia. During the monthlong campaign, a pastor's packet, coordinator's manual, sermon outlines, seven-day leader's devotional, daily Bible reading planner, promotional posters and Bible bookmarks will be available in Spanish.
“Our hope is that not only will U.S. Hispanics start reading the Bible more, but that their engagement will be deeper too," says Rev. Dr. Emilio A. Reyes, executive director of multilanguage ministries at ABS. "The Bible brings wisdom and counsel on so many of the issues facing Hispanics today. This month is the perfect time to rediscover all that is waiting in the Bible’s pages.”
"Hispanic America: Faith, Values and Priorities," a recent study published by Barna Hispanics, ABS, NHCLC and OneHope, notes that while 87 percent of Latinos own a Bible, only 8 percent read it regularly or allow it to inform their worldview. Yet the study further revealed a large percentage of this influential demographic is open to exploring the claims of the Bible in their lives. ABS and NHCLC hope to provide the necessary materials to Hispanic Americans so all have the ability to read the Bible and the motivation to pick up the world's best-selling book of all time.
The nation’s largest minority group and one of the fastest-growing segments in America with a population exceeding 50 million, Latinos are impacting virtually all of American society, including many expressions of the Christian faith. Some 84 percent of Hispanics in the United States identify themselves as Christian.
Your own link puts it at about 28%, 27% in 2008, other polls put it at 22% in 2008, Protestant Hispanics are the ones that voted 56% republican in 2004, and 48% republican in 2008.
It would be nice to get them up to snuff with better bible knowledge, I wonder whose churches will improve the situation the fastest, the Protestant ones, or the Catholic ones?
Catholic Hispanic church attendance is just barely higher than it is for white Catholics.
How many times larger than the total number of votes cast for King Barry by "Catholic" voters is the total number of non-Catholics who don't bother to vote?
When was the Constitution altered to prohibit the 75% or so of the population who are not Catholic from voting?
How many of the Latinos who are counted as something other than Catholic when it's time to brag about how Latinos are leaving the Catholic Church are counted as being Catholic on election day the same way black folks mysteriously cease to be Evangelical non-Catholics on election day?
Keep on dancin' Bojangles12, keep on dancin'. Figures don't lie but liars figure.
I think all Christians consider that great news, and all conservatives know that it can only help us politically.
okay, historically about 92% are catholic.
you can go get un-squinky now.
That explains a lot.
I don’t see the point of your questions or their relevancy to my post.
But your last one really seemed odd, it didn’t make any sense what so ever.
yeah, that’s all you were, concerned about the facts. the huge ax your’e grinding had nothing to do with it.
Now not going along to get along is "the huge ax", that also explains a lot. Like how so many people cease to care about the truth if the mistatements of fact and outright lies are popular.
comeon, you could have just said that certain percentage isn’t accurate any longer. instead you took it as an opportunity to engage in bashing. the fact most catholics don’t read the bible is relevant as most latinos are catholic, and still are, even with the percentage changes you identify. stating so isn’t me bashing, it’s just what it is. you taking it as an opportunity to go after others on unproven accusations that you somehow know to be true. talk about not being bothered about facts.
It said: “The kids are raised at home speaking Tex-Mex Spanish—but not reading Spanish! They become moderately bi-lingual and start school kind-of speaking English also, which is great, but they are not proficient enough to read English well and cannot get any help there at home.”
The article concludes with the sympathetic, but devastating, “So little Juan is bi-lingual but illiterate in two languages.”
My how squinky !
"I don’t see the point of your questions or their relevancy to my post."
Which proves that the sort of numbers you enjoy posting are for your own entertainment only since you cannot grasp he real problem that has to be solved.
That's the bottom line.
No, it just means what I said, and what about that goofy last question in your post that you still didn’t explain, what in the heck was that about?
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