{"id":148038,"date":"2026-10-15T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148038"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:43:43","slug":"ef-in-chile-almost-one-evangelical-church-is-established-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148038","title":{"rendered":"(EF) In Chile, almost one evangelical church is established every day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The presence of evangelical Christianity in Chile continues, new official records are showing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An example is a review of Chile\u2019s Official Gazette carried out by the Chilean news outlet <em>Ex-Ante<\/em>. It shows 82 religious organisations registered officially with the state in just three months: 36 in June 2026, 28 in July, and 18 in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These data amount to an average of nearly one new Protestant church per day, in addition to a further 16 that amended their statutes during the same period. They are spread across 13 regions, although they are concentrated in the centre and south of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/world\/36198\/in-chile-one-evangelical-church-is-established-almost-every-day\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One in six people (16.3 per cent) in the country identify as \u201cevangelical\u201d or \u201cProtestant\u201d. A government plan to promote Christian centres with a social impact in neighbourhoods  shows the growing public presence. https:\/\/t.co\/LAmeN20a6B<\/p>&mdash; Evangelical Focus (@Evan_Focus) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Evan_Focus\/status\/2110310033003106362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presence of evangelical Christianity in Chile continues, new official records are showing. An example is a review of Chile\u2019s Official Gazette carried out by the Chilean news outlet Ex-Ante. It shows 82 religious organisations registered officially with the state<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148038\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[613,419,440,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chile","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148043,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148038\/revisions\/148043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}