The Latin Bridge

Below is an interesting article from USA Today about the growing religious shift among Latinos living in the US. It’s Sunday morning and evangelical churches are packed. Pastors are preaching, Bibles are being read and churchgoers are singing. In Spanish. While the Catholic church is still the principal religion for Latinos, a growing number are [...]

Are you serious?  Could you possibly be inferring that Latin America doesn’t need anymore missionaries?  Should we celebrate and retire because our job is done in Latin America? The above picture is actually from the back of a prayer card I picked up from a fellow missionary at a conference a few months ago.  Not surprisingly, [...]

It’s the first Friday of the month and almost everywhere you go the air is filled with the sweet smell of the K’oa pronounced Kohwah. This is a tradition that has its roots in the ancient rituals of the Quechua and Aymara Indians and is something that is commonly seen throughout the region of the [...]

Every year in August we have what is one of the largest Catholic festivals in our country here in the city of Cochabamba. It is a celebration for the Virgin of Urkupiña, which takes place in the town of Quillacollo located about 14 km from our city. Urkupiña 2011 from Kevin White on Vimeo. The story [...]

This morning police interrupted the church of a dear friend of mine in China.  Before they left, several of the pastors were arrested and taken to the police station.  Although we don’t face this open persecution today in Latin America, with the leftist leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and of course Cuba, we could have [...]

What country in the world has the 4th highest percentage of facebook users??  The answer might surprise you.  It’s Chile!  Chile also comes in at number 16 among Twitter users, according to a recent report from CNN Chile. There are a few lessons to be learned: Latin America is no longer comprised of under developed countries with little to no [...]

Approximately one in every five Colombian teenagers is already a parent, President Juan Manuel Santos told various media at the signing of a political pact to promote reproductive rights. President Santos expressed the government’s concern about the rapid growth of young and unplanned pregnancies in a speech to Congress Thursday, reported the newspaper El Espectador. More [...]