Iglesia Cristiana Ebenezer

The number of Salvadorans who profess the evangelical Christian faith almost doubled in 11 years, rising from 20.6% to 38.2% of the population while the percentage of Catholics dropped from 55.2% to 50.4 % over the same period, said a national survey.

The survey, developed by the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA, run by Jesuits) between 12 and 26 June, 1,260 people consulted to determine the "affiliation and religious practice" of Salvadorans, according to a statement released by the institution education this past October 12.

50.4% of respondents admitted that professes Catholicism while 38.2% declared their membership of any evangelical church, the report said.

Comparing these results with other similar survey carried out by the same AAU in 1998 found that in 11 years the number of Catholics decreased by 4.8 percentage points, while the evangelicals grew at 17.6 points.

The brutal murder of a Protestant pastor in his own church has led to Oklahoma authorities to alert the whole area to the possibility that the case of a murderer who acts against religious leaders, local media reported.

Anadarko officials, a small town in Oklahoma, defined as "appalling" state in which the Sunday, 30 August found the African American evangelical Reverend Carol Daniels, 61, who was found dead behind the altar of their own church.

For six years, Christians in Huejutla, Hidalgo (Mexico) can not freely exercise their religious beliefs, to the extent that have been stoned, threatened with death and finally expelled from their land by a minority of Catholics who require them fee to the traditional festivals.

On 14 July were expelled 7 families of the community "The Places", including several children who can not return to school because their parents refused to sign a document which required them to renounce their evangelical beliefs and only "fined" because their religion "affects the tranquility of the area," according to his accusers.

Since then, families sleep on a farm that provides them with the municipal government headed by Alejandro Nava Soto, whom nothing has been done to Catholics who respect the law in Mexico that provides for freedom of religion for anyone.