{"id":458,"date":"2013-08-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/hispanic-americans-leaving-catholicism-for-islam.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:42:35","slug":"hispanic-americans-leaving-catholicism-for-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/hispanic-americans-leaving-catholicism-for-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Americans Leaving Catholicism for Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mQxE7UFHw5U\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Some American Latinos are leaving the Catholic Church for Islam. 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