Posted on 12/27/2016 7:09:04 PM PST by BlessedBeGod
The Catholic Church, which has the largest number of baptized in the world in Brazil, has lost 9 million faithful in the country since 2014, according to a survey released today by the Datafolha Institute.
( Eph / InfoCatólica ) According to the study, the percentage of Brazilian adults who call themselves Catholics fell from 60% two years ago to 50% now, which would mean a loss of about 9 million faithful, but, unlike of what was happening so far, it has not meant an advance of the other churches and ecclesial communities.
Datafolha said that in the same period itself was a significant growth of those who profess no religion, which went from 6% to 14% over the last two years.
The decline in the number of Catholics has clearly accelerated in recent years. Since in 2012 the percentage was 64.6%, one can speak of a real crash.
The survey found that 43% of Brazilian Catholics are from the Southeast, the most developed and prosperous region of the country, and that in the north and west, which cover much of the Amazon, the rate is much lower and hardly to 15%.
Datafolha said that the survey has a margin of error of 2% and was made during the last month in 174 municipalities in all regions of the country, in which 2,828 people aged 16 and over were interviewed.
Pope Francis, Pope Francis, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Maybe if the pope wasn’t a socialist...
Pope Francis, may be the big reason for the exodus.
Liberation theology is the cancer eating away at it.
Francis wasn’t a player in it in Argentina, but he was part of the fellow-travelers.
Suprise. Suprise.
This has been going on for years, and not just in the RC Church.
The cultural fabric always comes from the top, a la Clinton, Obama and Pope Francis. It will take a generation for America and the Catholic Church to recover.
If I understood correctly, this last batch of 9 million didn’t head to another church.
I could be wrong. Happens a lot :)
What is unusual is that usually the poor are more faithful in a country than the rich, as material comforts replace (mistakenly) the need to turn to God.
I wonder why it is opposite there.
I could be wrong too, but I read the number that report no church as a small percent that would not take into account the vast numbers who left the RC...
I don't know the answer to your other question.
I’ll go with you :)
Rounding error.
This is just my own idea but it has become increasingly difficult for anyone to go to church as everyone lately is busy scratching out a living and forced a lot of times to work on Sundays.
Tends to make religion take a backseat and after a while the bus even leaves without the ones to head to the seat.
Not making excuses but life is getting harder for families. Who even sits down together for a meal at dinner anymore, let alone go to church together or even singley.
Latinos are moving in a Protestant direction.
We saw this in Puerto Rico...
Either that or the Olympics converted people out of Catholicism.
Perhaps if the Pope and the preaching orders, especially the Jesuits, would promote the Catholic faith instead of promoting the secular faith of the globalists, things would be different.
"Still" presumes they were Christian in the first place, which likely relative few were, and that those who left are worshiping at other churches now is even greater presumption. The trend for about the last 10 years has been that religious faith in general is decreasing, and NONEs are the fastest growing group overall in the West.
Pray and preach.
I do not know if they were actual believers before they left the RC church. Nor can anyone know if these unnamed souls now are true believers. I conjecture based on the rapid rise of evangelical churches that do preach the Gospel. May they come to know Him.
There is also a rise of atheism around the globe.
I'm sure Mormonism will claim some of them!
Remember; this is just one more poll!
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