El Salvador

El Salvador is Catholic as a country. The dominant religious context is: Catholic ~44%, Protestant/evangelical ~36%, with one of the highest Pentecostal growth rates in Latin America.

Catholic deconstruction in El Salvador usually has a family-and-ritual shape rather than a doctrinal one. Many of you stopped practicing years ago and are now navigating around the baptisms, first communions, weddings, and funerals that the family still treats as load-bearing. The pillar page on Catholicism, the page on the guilt that lingers, and the page on funerals and weddings will probably fit closely.

Leaving in El Salvador carries real community cost in a way that the broader Western experience often does not capture. Family rupture is common. Local religious communities are often dense, and stepping out of one is closer to immigrating than to changing a hobby.