Protestantism in Colombia
- Protestantism in Colombia
About 1,503,400 persons (3,5 % of the population of Colombia) are Protestants.Fact|date=July 2007 Protestant Christians present in Colombia are Baptists, Lutherans, Mennonites, Nazarenes, Pentecostals and Seventh-day Adventists. The government generally is in support of religious freedom. There is persecution by terrorist groups, including the FARC and the National Liberation Army. During the last five years more than 100 Evangelical church leaders were killed.Fact|date=July 2007
List of Denonimations
*Alianza Cristiana y Misionera
*Assemblies of God
*Asociación de Iglesias Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia: 831 (1998)
*Church of the Nazarene: 12,860 (1998)
*Hermanos en Cristo
*Iglesia Cruzada Evangélica
*Iglesia de Dios
*Iglesia Evangélica Luterana
*Misión Evangélica
*Mision Indigena
*Misión Nuevas Tribus
*Unión Misionera Evangélica
*Seventh-day Adventist Church: 241,029 [ [http://www.adventistatlas.org/viewCountry.asp?CtryCode=CO Colombia, Adventist Atlas] ]
ee also
*Protestantism by country
External links
* [http://www.adherents.com/adhloc/Wh_74.html Adherents.com - Religion by Location]
* [http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2000carcsam.html 2000 Caribbean, Central & South America Mennonite & Brethren in Christ Churches]
*World Christian Encyclopedia: Second edition, Volume 1, pp 205 /206
* [http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71454.htm Colombia, International Religious Freedom Report 2006]
* [http://www.unioncolombiana.org.co/ Union Columbiana Adventista del Séptimo Día]
* [http://news.adventist.org/data/2007/1193162685/index.html.en Colombia: nationwide Adventist effort feeds 80,000 in two hours]
References
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