Religions Besides Catholicism
Bolivia has an active Protestant minority of various groups, especially Evangelical Methodists. Other denominations represented in Bolivia included Mennonites and Anglicanism. In 1980s Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, and various Pentecostal denominations gained increasing adherents. Bolivia also has a small Jewish community, which had not reported any discrimination. In 1988 the government stated that numerous religious groups were operating in Bolivia illegally, but its attempt to expel some foreign members of the Hare Krishna movement in 1986 was overturned by the Supreme Court of Justice. Now Hare Krishna is legally established in Bolivia as an educational institution.
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