Evangelicals rise in Latin America – Features – Al Jazeera English.
Home to about eight per cent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics – more of the faithful than any country outside Brazil – Mexico has seen a slow but steady decline in people who self-identify with the faith. Currently about 82.7 per cent of Mexicans consider themselves Catholic, down from 88 per cent in 2000 and 96 per cent in 1970.
