Catholic cathedrals against evangelical churches

Despite the ensuing confusion, in the eyes of the average European unbiased person, there is nothing new under the American sun. Since el reborn deacon Jimmy Carter hasta las gospel cantatas de Barack Obamathe religious garb of the Washington mandamus was a constant.

But beyond the great Trump corps, we must express a far more prosaic reality, and for theocracy enthusiasts, more disturbing: evangelical power.

In recent decades, evangelicalism has at first glance been the decisive strategy to engulf the electoral map of the West. They have certainly proved a key influence in the rise and mandate of prominent conservative leaders, particularly in the Americas.

However, our data suggests that you are busy touching it.

During the last decade, the progress of Pentecostal churches has become an unstoppable obstacle.

In Guatemala, presidents as Jimmy Morales or Alejandro Giammattei they transformed the country into the “provided capital of Ibero-America” ​​and used religious rhetoric as a shield against accusations of corruption. It was an exchange of colors: political impunity in exchange for moral laws.

However, Morales’ popularity rose from 80% to 10% in record time.

“In Zambia, Edgar Lungu I sought to create a Ministry of Religious Presuppositions and declared the country a ‘Christian nation’ to promote the opposition”

But it is not just an American phenomenon. When we look at Africa, the evangelists have redeñado gobiernos enteros.

Victory in Kenya William Ruto in 2022 he was hailed as the triumph of the “evangelist in the jefe”. Ruto has turned his life into a massive worship service, pleading in churches to present himself as their defender fraudsters (buscavidas) before traditional political dynasties.

in zambia, Edgar Lungu He sought to create a Ministry of Religious Presuppositions and declared the country a “Christian nation” to persecute opposition.

There are cases where faith is not a moral guide, but rather an infrastructure of social control and rapid movement that Catholicism, with its bureaucratic slowness, cannot offer you.

Including the Far East, evangelicalism appeared on paper. In South Korea, megachurches (some with hundreds of mil gals) are a traditional support of the conservative right. Presidents like Lee Myung-bakan elder of the Presbyterian Church, was accused of favoring his co-religionists in key areas of the state.

Paradigmatic was the case of Brazil, which gave rise to the “Evangelical Bank”, a pressure group that was the driving force Jair Bolsonaro. If you know them as BBB Bank, the initials Boi, Bala and Bíblia: beef for agriculture, bala for the military sector and Bible for faith.

However, at Bolsonaro’s pace, the massive group showed the first shouts. The latest data from the Latinobarometer reveals that the evangelical population in Latin America dropped from 23% to 19% for the first time.

The taste of the mixture “púlpito y política” seems to be really real. The zeal of the evangelist served to win the election, but it is long past time that he shocks by crude management of inflation or by example.

The image of Bolsonaro, the great evangelical champion, is extremely tarnished.

The ideal marriage, included in the United States, is also showing signs of exhaustion. Don’t worry about the Despacho Oval data photos: 2026 Pew Research suggests that white evangelical support for Trump has fallen that far in a year.

According to him, there is an “ethical struggle”. think tankespecially among young people who yearn to encounter “Christian nationalism” It feels more like a shopping club than a spiritual experience.

are you in spain

If we move our gaze home, it presents the phenomenon of an engaging statistical trompantojo.

On the face of it, evangelical growth in Spain appears to be vigorous: the Observatory of Religious Pluralism records 5,000 cases of worship (4,763), with Catalonia and Madrid in first place. It is a shadow capillaridada that feeds on Latin American immigration and proximity strategies in neighborhoods where Catholicism appears to have been removed.

In the Empire, the number of seats is not equivalent to the number of files, much less political weight. CIS 2025 data acts as a fresh water container for any critical growth requirement.

The spiritual radiography of Spain in 2025 gives us a clear picture of the monthly filters and excesses of pastoral optimism: Catholicism, moving between ritual and cultural inertia, maintains up to 56.2% of the population, while those who are declared secular (indifferent, atheists and agnostics) reach an impressive 41.8%.

Meanwhile, the very popular “boom” of religious minorities, including evangelism, reaches 2.8%; a percentage that shows that in our country the true emerging faith is not found in garage temples, until it lives from parishes and hermandades always, until the most absolute and supreme indifference enters the church.

As can be seen, evangelicalism in Spain is an inferior state and of little importance. Unlike what is happening in America, here the decline of Catholicism does not feed the Pentecostal pastor, even flows directly from secularism.

Likewise, the evangelical growth in Spain has a demographic effect: it depends entirely on the migrant population.

Sociological studies such as ILSEG (Longitudinal Investigation of the Second Generation in Spain) warn that the second generation, the children of these immigrants, are secularizing at the same rate as their counterparts from the Spanish Institute.

Y sin conversion native, el boom the evangelist is a social phenomenon, not a structural reform. Here, too, “evangelical banks” are capable of flouting the law; you have a faith of resistance that stands against the wall of society who prefers Catholicism or indifference to any new liturgy.

“Catholicism has diplomacy, nunciature, and social trust, and ranks twenty points above all evangelical churches in ethical credibility.”

So does this mean that Catholicism is dead? On the contrary. While evangelization is a swift and unsteady force, Catholicism affirms that it is a slow but institutional force.

We also know that in recent times we have been witnessing a “quiet revival” in Europe. Countries like France or the United Kingdom are seeing a surprising increase in autism among adults and children.

Catholicism knows how to extend the wide reach of institutional influence. Verbigration, in the Supreme Court of the United States, the conservative mayor is strictly catholic, not evangelical.

Catholicism maintains diplomacy, nunciature, and social self-confidence, ranking ahead of the evangelical churches in terms of ethical credibility.

It’s a cathedral victory over a garage turned into a temple. Stay ahead of fashion.

Finally, we are witnessing a noticeable change in trend. Although the evangelistic platform to drive power to its goals is clear and has been proven effective in recent years, the reality is that few models have achieved success through governance.

Don’t expect that in Europe.

And yes, I will not only rejoice in apparent silence until the Catholic Church grows. The old, ubiquitous and widely known Catholic Church. How to do it in the last two thousand years.

*** Andrés Ortiz Moyano is a journalist and writer.