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Who are Mexican-Americans?

April 26, 2017belief center church culture evangelism missional Research unchurched

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Who are Mexican-Americans?

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• Mexican-Americans make up two-thirds of the Hispanic population in the United States • They are more likely to be concentrated in the West (55 percent) and the South (34 percent). • They are also the Hispanic sub-group most likely to have a family with five or more members. • Today about 25 million Mexican-Americans live in the U.S. and 714,000 live in Canada. • Mexican-Americans and Religion • About 75 percent of Mexican-Americans are of the Catholic faith. • All Hispanic-Americans, including Mexican-Americans, face a dichotomy. According to Moiss Sandoval: There is a social distance between them and the institutional Church. For some it is a vague discomfort. For others, it is the perception that the clergy is not interested in themThey are the objects of ministry rather than its agents. (Sandoval, On the Move: A History of the Hispanic Church in the United States, p.131).