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Why do the majority of South Americans today follow the Roman Catholic faith?
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∙ 12y ago
Because the Spanish conquistadors were all Catholic, they decided that the Catholic faith was the correct faith, so they forced all the natives to become Catholics. Also, as the settlers were Portuguese or Spanish they were also Catholic, so they taught their children in the faith and their children had children and taught them in the faith and so on...
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 7y agoThat is due to the history of the region. After the so-called "discovery" of America in 1492 (it wasn't really discovered; there were already people living there), both Spain and Portugal colonized (invaded) different parts of Central and South America, and both countries had a Catholic majority at that time.
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∙ 12y agoBecause it was the religion imposed by the Spanish conquistadors when they settled/subdued Latin America.
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∙ 8y agoSpain colonized South America and with them came priests. They set out to convert the natives they found to Catholic.
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