Catholicism faces decline in Latin America, CELAM report shows
October 23, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: A sharp drop in the number of baptisms—along with a similar drop in marriages—points to an overall decline in the faith, warns a report from the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM).
The report shows that between 2000 and 2020, the number of annual baptisms plunged by more than one-third: from 8.2 million to 5.1 million. The CELAM report concluded: “It is possible to conjecture that the number of Catholics in the region...will fall in the near future.”
The report also took note of a decline in loyalty to the Church, which seemed “to indicate a loss of weight of the Catholic Church in the Latin American population, a distancing from the institution.”
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