Evangelicals increase in Spain

The number of evangelicals in Spain has been on the rise in recent years.

He couldn’t have imagined that 25 years later, he would be pastoring an evangelical congregation of 120 and count about two dozen other thriving Protestant churches in the northwestern city. And there’s a distinctive feature to the worshippers: Most of them are not Spanish-born – they’re immigrants from Latin America, including about 80% of Albright’s congregation. 

The numbers reflect huge surges in Spain's migrant population and evangelical population in recent decades, producing profound changes in how faith is practiced in a country long dominated by the Catholic church.