{"id":28847,"date":"2011-10-19T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_u-s-_hispanics_choose_churches_outside_catholicism\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:08:24","slug":"npr_u-s-_hispanics_choose_churches_outside_catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28847","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) U.S. Hispanics Choose Churches Outside Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they&#8217;re also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>You can see evidence of that in the Assemblies of God, once a historically white, suburban Pentecostal denomination. When you walk into the denomination&#8217;s largest church, it&#8217;s sensory overload: The auditorium is jam-packed with hundreds of Latino worshipers singing in Spanish, swaying and dancing.<\/p>\n<p>In little more than a decade, New Life Covenant Church in Chicago has grown from 68 people to more than 4,000 members; it had to abandon its old building and meet in Clemente High School. When you include the other churches New Life has started, its membership comes to some 12,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/10\/19\/141275979\/u-s-hispanics-choose-churches-outside-catholicism\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they&#8217;re also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith. You can see evidence of that in the Assemblies of God, once a historically white, suburban Pentecostal<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28847\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,183,154,184,420,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pentecostal","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847","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=28847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}