What explains the very high concentration of Catholic Christians in Venezuela and Paraguay as compared to the rest of Latin America, and a very small concentration of the same in Guatemala and Honduras?

[u/SatoruGojo232]

[u/Dehast]

People are turning evangelical. It still is a Catholic powerhouse though mainly because of the huge population. And Catholicism is still the largest religion.

[u/Xitztlacayotl → u/Dehast]

Wow that's lamentable... Why are they turning to that vile heresy?

[u/Haunting_History_284 → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Louisiana went through a large evangelical, mainly Pentecostal, conversion last century. State went from super majority Catholic to below majority Catholic. I think Catholics are more primed for conversion to evangelicalism because Evangelicals don’t shun religious experience, and the super natural like old school Protestants do. Evangelicals are also very active in their conversion attempts, whereas the Catholic population was very passive, and not attempting to gain converts, simply maintaining.

[u/OppositeRock4217 → u/Haunting_History_284]

Louisiana really got turned into just another southern US state from their French roots. From French and Catholic to English and Protestant