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Transcript: Evangelicals Stepping on Catholic Toes in Latin America
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- December 12, 1994
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NEAL CONAN, Host: This is Morning Edition; I'm Neal Conan. In towns
and villages across Latin America, parish priests and evangelical
ministers are doing battle for the souls of their communities. Protestant
missionaries have moved into Latin America, and they're doing quite
well, which puts them at odds with the Roman Catholic Church, `the'
religious authority in Latin America five centuries now. NPR's Alan
Tomlinson reports on the religious conflict in one Chilean village,
Donihue.
[people talking, children playing, awaiting the arrival of a bus]
ALAN TOMLINSON, Reporter: A crowd of country folk, dressed in their
Sunday best, waits for a bus in ...