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Colombia argues about statues while pastors die in Cauca (opens the original)
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Colombia has spent a good part of the last month arguing about the Virgin of Fátima. At his inauguration in Cali on 7 August, President Abelardo de la Espriella had Congress add a segment called “Invocación y alabanza” [invocation and praise] to the ceremony. The lights dimmed, a spotlight fell on an image of the Virgin, a rabbi, an evangelical pastor and the president of the Episcopal Conference prayed, and the new president closed with “Viva Cristo Rey” [long live Christ the King]. A citizen f
The Data That Does Not Exist (opens the original)
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In my last post I argued, on the back of Ryan Burge’s new Religious Behavior Index, that religious behavior rather than religious identity is what puts people at risk of violence for their faith, and that the instruments used to measure religious freedom miss most of Latin America’s victims because they count identities. This post is about the part of that argument I cannot yet prove, and about how close Burge has come to supplying the tools to prove it.Here is my problem, and Burge’s po
Religion Is Something You Do (opens the original)
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Ryan Burge published a post this week that I have been waiting years for someone to write. It is called “The Religious Behavior Index: How Engaged Are Americans, Really?” and my first reaction on reading it was one word: finally.Here is why a survey index of American churchgoing matters to anyone who cares about religious freedom. Since my doctoral fieldwork in Mexico I have been arguing that the people most at risk of violence for their faith are usually not the ones who belong to a religious
9/11 – Twenty-Five Years On: A Personal Journey! (opens the original)
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9/11 – Twenty-Five Years On: A Personal Journey!I was booking a trip to the USA at the time. “Oh,” said the Trailfinders agent, “I don’t think we are going to be able to complete this ticket!” Why not? I asked. “Turn on your TV,” he said, “There are tens of thousands of dead in New York.”Thanks for reading Five4Faith! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form cla
Catholic on the Outside (opens the original)
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A Colombian colleague recently shared with me a small pamphlet published in June 2026 by the Conferencia Episcopal de Colombia, the country’s Catholic bishops’ conference. Its title is unwieldy but precise: Orientaciones Pastorales para el trato con Entidades Religiosas y Grupos que no están en plena comunión con la Iglesia Católica, pastoral orientations for dealing with religious entities and groups that are not in full communion with the Catholic Church.Most of the document is what you would
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