A protestantizmus Kolumbiában
Colombian Protestantism

Summary/Abstract: This study briefly summarizes the story of Colombian Protestantism. It adds a chapter about the most important Protestant tendencies in the Latin American region. The Protestant churches began their activities in the first half of the nineteenth century in Colombia due to the encouragement of foreign missionaries and Bible Societies. Protestantism—partly because of its diversity and partly due to lack of religious freedom—has not become a social organizing force like Catholicism, which has been an integral part of the state for centuries. At the same time, in the nineteenth century, the liberal parties of Colombia, despite their infighting, repeatedly supported the activities of protestant churches. Because of its relationship with the different strata of society, it played a role in the realization of the rights of freedom, the expansion of education and solving social matters. Its flexibility and openness helped to gain more space in the twentieth century. In modern-day Colombia, the Constitution of 1991 made a decisive change by guaranteeing religious freedom.

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