Posted on 01/09/2023 6:40:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Observatory of Religious Pluralism in Spain has released an update of the data on places of worship, as well as the religious identification of the Spanish population according to the statistics published by the Sociological Research Centre (CIS).
The Observatory aims to provide “data and diagnoses on the diversity of beliefs and the needs related to the effective exercise of religious freedom, in order to contribute to the improvement of public management”, explained on its website.
In addition to provide reports and infographics on the situation of religious minorities in Spain, the Observatory updates data on places of worship every six months.
According to the 2018 religious affiliation report of the CIS, 1.96% of the population in Spain identifies as protestant or evangelical. In the last 20 years, this group has multiplied eightfold, being the denomination with the highest percentage growth.
This figure is significant when compared with that of the majority religion, Roman Catholicism, which in the same period has gone from 83.7% to 64.8%, a loss of almost 20 percentage points.
Neverthless, the “confession” that has grown most is that of those who do not identify with religion, going from 10,25% to 28,6% in only 20 years (this percentage include atheists - those who do not believe in God, a 16,8%- and agnostics - those who do not know if there is a God or do not believe there is a way to know, a 11,2%).
Furthermore, nearly 10% of those not born in Spain who live in the country identify as Protestant. The evangelical faith almost reaches 3% in the youngest age range studied, 18 to 29 years old.
By sex, women are a majority among evangelicals: 2.84% of women compared with 1.22% of men who identify themselves as evangelicals in Spain.
At a general level, although in Spain the majority still choose to define themselves as “rather religious” (28%), the figure is down by 8 percentage points compared to 2008, while the options “extremely non-religious” (9.6%) and “rather non-religious” (18.2%) show a strong increase over the last decade.
The Observatory uses three sources to collect data on places of worship: the Register of Religious Entities, researches promoted by the Pluralism and Coexistence Foundation and the requests of the religious communities to be part of the Observatory's website.
There are 30,676 places of worship in Spain. Of these, 22,997 are Roman Catholic parishes and 7,679 belong to other religious denominations.
Evangelical places of worship currently number 4,283, spread throughout Spain, but mainly in the large cities of Madrid and Barcelona.
Previously, the data on evangelical places of worship included the Anglican Communion and Adventists, but in this latest update they are now shown separately, so the numerical growth may appear to be lower.
You staed.....”I’m compelled to say this:
No form of Catholicism is desirable.
That’s my opinion, I have supporting evidence.”
I could agree to that. Although I do think there are some Christians who know Jesus in the catholic church.
Well the catholic church has some really really bad Popes in their history....that’s for sure.
Unless they are considered a cult or there is some other reason they are excluded, musulmanas grew from 0.16% to 1.5%, or 9.375 fold in the same twenty years, and the Budistas grew from 0.04% to 0.35%, about 8.75 fold.
If you read comments like post #4, #5, and #20, its pretty clearly a one-way street with them, so I'm not sure what you mean by "we are all in this together".
Unfortunately, they don't accept you as Christian whatsoever. In fact, they probably think you're going to Hell just because you won't get "saved" in some Christian denomination that didn't even EXIST until well after the 1600s.
I could agree to that. I do think there are some Christians who know Jesus in Protestantism. See how that works?
Where did the subject country of this thread change to Mexico from Spain? Did I get lost somewhere?
Where did Spain come up?
That is well said.
This is rather interesting data about SPAIN, not Mexico. It’s hard to be sure, but the statistics hint that the increased percentage of people identifying as “evangelical” correlates with foreign-born residents of Spain.
I wonder what their countries of origin are. I know there are English-speaking (British or American) communities in Spain. Maybe there are enough evangelicals in that group to affect the statistics. “Evangelical” is not a denomination - a term used in the article - but an attitude, so that could include Anglican Christians. Are some of the African arrivals evangelical Christians? What about immigration from Guatemala, which has a significant percentage of Protestants?
Are Eastern Europeans moving to Spain? We have Ukrainian Evangelical churches in my area.
The article is about Spain, the European country.
I am not trying to reach anyone aside from those Catholics willing to take back their church before it is destroyed from within.
They need to wake up and stand up against this heretic Pope.
Dear heart, please read the book of Mark to see WHAT Christ did in His life, and then read the book of John to see WHY he did it. Please read John twice.
Then compare the teachings of God to the teachings of the Roman church.
You will find no gold, no priest, no veneration of Mary, no statues, no hierarchy, no Roman Rite, no structure not built on the foundation of Christ’s atoning death on the cross.
Christ only. The Bible only. Faith only.
I beg you in sincere Christian brotherly love.
Mexico has very strange customs regarding religion. The Cristo wars, various cults and mentioning the Culture of Death is a death sentence to priest.
You’re singing to the choir. I am not a Catholic yet I cannot argue the importance of one billion Catholics in the world. I pray for them and that their church can stop drifting into the Gospel of Karl Marx.
From Al Jazeera news: On December 1, evangelicals in Brazil celebrated the Senate’s approval of evangelical pastor, lawyer and staunch Bolsonaro ally André Mendonça’s appointment to Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court. As seen in a video clip widely shared on Brazilian social media, Bolsonaro’s wife, Michelle, reacted to the news of the Senate approving Mendonça’s appointment by jumping around and shouting “glory to God” and “hallelujah”. An evangelical pastor’s appointment to the nation’s highest court, coupled with Michelle Bolsonaro’s overtly religious celebration of his approval by Senate, added to the fears that the president and those close to him are working with hardline evangelical forces to erode secularism and democracy in Brazil.
You have three "onlies" there. Logically, an "only" excludes everything else. Therefore: you aren't talking any kind of coherent theology, but only slogans.
"The Bible" didn't even exist as a single collection until the 4th century, and then it was the Catholic Church in the West that proclaimed the canon authoritatively. How can the NT teach "the Bible only" when it was in the process of being written at the time?
For example, Paul writes to Timothy of "the Scriptures you have known since [your] infancy". Well, those Scriptures certainly didn't include the letters of Paul to Timothy, did they? In fact, it probably included none of the NT at all, but only the Tanakh (OT).
no priest ... no hierarchy
Wrong. Even in the Pauline letters, we read of "overseers" (Gk episkopoi, from which we get the word "bishop") and "elders" (Gk presbyteroi, from which we get the word "priest") being appointed "in every town" (Titus 1:5).
In the NT, it is not clear that "overseer" and "elder" are two different ranks, but by the time of Ignatius of Antioch (who knew some of the apostles personally and was martyred AD 110) it is clear (from Ignatius' letters) that overseers are the heads of the church in a particular location, and that elders are their assistants or deputies (i.e., vicars) in individual congregations.
That's a hierarchy, any way you slice it.
Learn some actual church history, instead of speaking in trite slogans that make no actual sense, either logically or historically. You might discover, as did John Henry Newman, that "to go deep into history is to cease to be Protestant".
Better get to Mary, first...
(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)
| 1 | Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces. |
| 2. | I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. |
| 3. | The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies |
| 4. | It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. |
| 5. | The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. |
| 6. | Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. |
| 7. | Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church. |
| 8. | Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. |
| 9. | I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. |
| 10. | The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. |
| 11. | You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. |
| 12. | All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. |
| 13. | I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death |
| 14. | All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. |
| 15. | Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. |
"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,
no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
Sister Lucia dos Santos
But very, VERY few of them have a relationship with Mary.
You KNOW this is IMPOSSIBLE!
Rome has survived bad popes in the past.
Amen! Thank God for the Rosary! I wish more people understood it’s significance.
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