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Spirituality in Times of Crisis: Thus Does Evangelism Co-Opt Collective Hopelessness to Grow

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The theologian Luis Santamaría del Río says that although there has been a process of secularization in Spanish society, the religious phenomenon has not disappeared, but has mutated. “The vacuum that has left a majority Catholicism is filling it with evangelism,” he explains. The rise is evident through the data: in the last decade, evangelical cults have increased by 32%—from 3,588 in 2015 to 4,763 in 2025—, according to the Observatory of Rel…
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The theologian Luis Santamaría del Río says that although there has been a process of secularization in Spanish society, the religious phenomenon has not disappeared, but has mutated. “The vacuum that has left a majority Catholicism is filling it with evangelism,” he explains. The rise is evident through the data: in the last decade, evangelical cults have increased by 32%—from 3,588 in 2015 to 4,763 in 2025—, according to the Observatory of Rel…

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Newtral broke the news on Saturday, May 30, 2026.
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