El Salvador: Evangelicals (10 images)

El Salvador, long a fervently Catholic country, is in revival. In recent decades, Evangelical churches, mostly Pentecostal, have grown to absorb about a third of the country's population. Seven days a week, walking through rural villages or urban barrios, one can hear the sound of booming microphones, clapping hands, and strained voices, spilling out of open doorways into quiet streets.

These images were produced for the Christian Science Monitor as part of a project about the...
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El Salvador, long a fervently Catholic country, is in revival. In recent decades, Evangelical churches, mostly Pentecostal, have grown to absorb about a third of the country's population. Seven days a week, walking through rural villages or urban barrios, one can hear the sound of booming microphones, clapping hands, and strained voices, spilling out of open doorways into quiet streets.

These images were produced for the Christian Science Monitor as part of a project about the role of Evangelicals in the 2009 Salvadoran presidential election.
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