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1 The transformation of Spain since 1974 is astonishing — from dictatorship to liberty, poverty to wealth, isolation to integration into Europe and religious discrimination to rampant secularism
2 The people movement among Spain's despised marginalized Roma (Gypsies) since 1966
3 Evangelicals have grown in numbers from a paltry 3- 4,000 adult believers in 1900, to 20,000 in 1970, to an estimated small, but significant 96,000 in 2000
1 The Inquisition is a dark shadow lying over Spain
2 The Catholic Church is in serious crisis
3 There is a spiritual vacuum which is being filled by:
a) Secularism and materialism
b) Foreign cults
c) The occult
d) Drugs
e) Gambling. This is a major obsession
4 The growth of Evangelicals has been steady, but not as fast as expected
a) Revival
b) Freedom from the effects of being a despised and rejected minority
c) Spanish evangelical churches to lose their 'foreign-ness'
d) Greater cooperation between denominations in fellowship and evangelism
5 Vision for the future has been lacking because of the fragmented world of Evangelicals
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Area 504,783 sq.km. The major part of the Iberian peninsula and Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean.
Population (2000) 39,759,775 +0.03%AGR
Capital Madrid 5 mill.
Indigenous 98%.
Foreign 2%.
Literacy 97%. Official language Castilian. Catalan, Galician and Basque are the official languages in the respective autonomous regions.
The mightiest economic power in the world in the 16th Century followed by three centuries of decline and economic stagnation until entry into the EU in 1986.
HDI 0.894; 21st/174. Public debt 55% of GNP. Income/person $14,490 (46% of USA).
Spain's tumultuous past moulds the present.
During Franco's dictatorship, Catholicism was the state religion.
| Religions |
Population % |
Adherents |
Ann.Gr. |
| Christian |
67.77 |
26,945,200 |
-2.7% |
| non-Religious/other |
30.89 |
12,281,794 |
+8.1% |
| Muslim |
1.20 |
477,117 |
+3.7% |
| Jewish |
0.13 |
51,688 |
+5.4% |
| Buddhist |
0.01 |
3,976 |
n.a. |
| Christians |
Denom. |
Affil.% |
,000 |
Ann.Gr. |
| Protestant |
130 |
0.42 |
169 |
+2.1% |
| Independent |
50 |
0.05 |
19 |
+2.9% |
| Anglican |
1 |
0.07 |
29 |
+2.9% |
| Catholic |
3 |
66.70 |
26,519 |
-2.9% |
| Orthodox |
1 |
0.01 |
4 |
+4.6% |
| Marginal |
8 |
0.52 |
206 |
-0.1% |
| Unaffiliated |
|
0.63 |
250 |
n.a. |
| Doubly affiliated |
|
-0.63 |
-250 |
n.a. |
Churches in Spain
Missionaries from Spain
416 in 43 agencies.
Missionaries to Spain
1,266 in 182 agencies from 38 countries
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