[Alex Murphy]

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....

...."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.

[Old Sarge]

And this is a surprise because.....?

[Salvation]

eight

[A CA Guy]

They even believe in a saint associated with drugs and killing.
IMO they at times can be like radical Islam with just a little Catholicism thrown in.

[NVDave]

So much for that GOP trope of these people being culturally conservative, eh?

This is exactly the reason the Catholic Church loves the idea of unfettered immigration. These people will be perfectly happy to listen to the pablum from their liberal/progressive priests and vote accordingly.

[nickcarraway]

Why aren’t their evangelical and JW churches teaching them?

[max americana]

the only satan they know of are gringos’

[Doomonyou]

Sounds like democrats.

[taxcontrol]

How does one measure biblical literacy? First, which canon to use as the measure? Do you test specific scripture awareness like John 3:16? If so, which translation? I just don’t see how such a test is even approachable without significant bias.

[drypowder]

gee, 100s if not 1,000s of Mexican gangs in the US, drugs, murder, rape, welfare, racists (La Raza), anti American, they pray directly to the Virgin Marry instead of praying to God if they pray at all and now this news that they don't know the Bible.
REALLY??

[kabumpo]

newsflash: not a literate culture. Even those who are able to read, don’t. Obviously, I’m.referring to the lower and lower-middle levels. There is a tiny elite that reads for pleasure.

[Fiji Hill]

I’ll bet the biblical illiteracy rate among non-Latinos is also quite high. It’s probably also a safe bet that the biblical illiteracy rate among conservatives is considerably lower than that of liberals and leftists.

[JerseyanExile]

What is their definition of biblical illiteracy? Because if it’s just “reads Bible regularly”, non-Hispanic Christians aren’t much different.

[Secret Agent Man]

Given that about 92% of latinos are Catholic, I am totally not surprised.

[Old Yeller]

What do you expect? Most of them are Catholics. We have a college student from Columbia that we have befriended who says that the majority of her country is Catholic and that the people in that country think that anyone who knows the Bible well is considered to be “muy loco”.

[ansel12]

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.

I think all Christians consider that great news, and all conservatives know that it can only help us politically.