
Latin America

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‘Being a celebrity kills you’: Marco Barrientos calls for end to toxic celebrity culture in church at COICOM 2025
In one of the most candid moments of the COICOM 2025 congress, Mexican singer and pastor Marco Barrientos called for an end to what he described as a growing “celebrity culture” in the evangelical church, warning that it carries dangerous spiritual and emotional consequences. -
‘A clear vision to transform our generation’: COICOM 2025 launches in Honduras
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Lego becomes a creative tool for evangelism across Latin America
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Homeschool mom must enroll son in accredited school; Brazilian court upholds $20K in fines
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‘There is no such thing as the evangelical’: Researchers say the movement’s center has shifted to the Global South
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Colombia: Petro government proposes churches pay taxes on commercial activities
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Brazil leads global Bible distribution as translation reaches new milestone
Brazil topped the world in Bible distribution in 2024, delivering 4.2 million printed copies and recording more than 16 million digital downloads, according to the 2024 Global Scripture Distribution Report. The country also logged 5 billion online chapter views, second only to the United States. -

Global fertility rates continue long-term decline, Pew report shows
Fertility rates are falling across every world region, with most now below the level needed to maintain population size, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of United Nations and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data published earlier this month. -

Initiative seeks to ban tattoos and body piercings for minors in Nuevo León, Mexico
In the Mexican state of Nuevo León, local congresswoman Paola Linares of the Citizens' Movement party presented a bill in the state Congress to prohibit minors from getting tattoos, receiving micropigmentation, or body piercings—even with parental or guardian consent. -

Thousands gather in Mexico for Great Day of Humility, call for peace and repentance
With prayers for repentance and renewed family values, thousands of Christians gathered Saturday in Plaza Juárez in Pachuca, Hidalgo, to mark the Great Day of Humility, an international movement of public prayer and evangelism that has spread across Latin America and beyond. -

Historian Cristian Rodrigo Iturralde challenges prevailing narratives about Christianity in new Spanish-language book
Historian and international speaker Cristian Rodrigo Iturralde has released a new Spanish-language book, Mentiras: 12 mitos sobre el cristianismo histórico que la izquierda quiere que creas (“Lies: 12 Myths About Historic Christianity the Left Wants You to Believe”), aiming to dismantle what he says are common misconceptions used to discredit the Christian roots of Western civilization. -

Uruguay on the verge of legalizing euthanasia
Uruguay is poised to become the third country in Latin America to legalize euthanasia — a move that has drawn sharp criticism from the nation’s Catholic bishops. The bill, scheduled for a final vote today (Aug. 12) after eight years of legislative debate, would establish a comprehensive legal framework for the practice, setting strict medical and legal requirements for those seeking a so-called “dignified death.” -

Venezuelan Christians rally nationwide for March for Jesus
A multitude of evangelical Christians mobilized across Venezuela on Saturday (Aug. 2) during the March for Jesus, an event officially declared months earlier as the “National Day of the March for Jesus” by the Venezuelan government through a presidential decree.
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