Christianity among Hispanic and Latino Americans

[3] Among the Latino Catholics, most communities celebrate their homeland's patron saint, dedicating a day for this purpose with festivals and religious services.

Such is the case of Santería, popular with Cuban Americans and Puerto Ricans and which combines old African beliefs in the form of Roman Catholic saints and ritual.

Catholicism is the largest religious group within Latino communities in the United States as of 2022, but that proportion has been gradually declining.

Compared to Catholic, unaffiliated, and mainline Protestant Latinos, Evangelical Protestant Latinos are substantially more likely to attend services weekly, pray daily, and adhere to biblical literalism.

55%, or about 19.6 million Latinos, of the United States Hispanic population identify as Catholic.