Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Hispanic Churches Adopt More English To Appeal To U.S.-Born Latinos

"As the nation's Hispanic population has grown to 50 million, so too has the Spanish-language church, one of the largest segments of U.S. Christianity. But compared to previous decades, when the growth in the Hispanic population came from immigration, and when many of the nation's biggest Spanish-speaking congregations blossomed, the growth of Hispanics in the last decade has been led by second-generation and third-generation Hispanics... The latest national census showed that native-born Hispanics, who tend to prefer English, now account for nearly two-thirds of the group"
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