Protestants in
Haiti
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are a significant minority of the population. The CIA Factbook reports that around 28.5% of the population is Protestant (Baptist 15.4%, Pentecostal 7.9%, Adventist 3%, Methodist 1.5% other 0.7%). Other sources put the Protestant population higher than this, suggesting that it may form one-third of the population today, as Protestant churches have experienced significant growth in recent decades.
Protestant churches of significant size include the
Assemblées de Dieu, the
Convention Baptiste d'Haïti, the
Seventh-day Adventists
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, the
Church of God (Cleveland)
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History
Origins (1886–1902)
R. G. Spurling (1857–1935), ...
, the
Anglican/Episcopal Church, the
Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas, the
Church of the Nazarene
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and the
Mission Evangelique Baptiste du Sud-Haiti.
Whereas a very small amount of Catholic Haitians combine their faith with aspects of
Vodou, this practice is much more rare among Haitian Protestants, whose churches tend to strongly denounce Vodou as diabolical.
References
Sources
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Protestants by country
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Haiti#Demographics
*World Christian Encyclopedia, 2001 edition, Volume 1, page 342
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