The Battle for Latino Souls
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Pentecostal churches are using savvy marketing to attract traditionally
Catholic Hispanics. A holy struggle in Chicago
By Arian Campo-Flores
Newsweek
March 21 issue - Five years ago, Esperanza Hincapie had sunk into a pit
of despondency. With a daughter in prison for murder, she contemplated
swallowing a mouthful of pills to blot out her heartache. Then four
Hispanic ladies from Rebano Companerismo Cristiano-a Pentecostal
church in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago-came to visit her. They
encircled Hincapie-a lifelong Roman Catholic from Colombia-laid
hands on her and prayed. "I felt a tremendous chill," she recalls. "I
began to cry and cry, and released everything." The following Sunday,
one of the women drove her to Rebano, where Hincapie, 52, converted and
permanently joined the flock. At her Catholic church, she says, "I
always left feeling empty." At her new one, "I felt something
beautiful-the presence of the Lord."
Hispanics
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Pentecostalism
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