Evangelicalism

====Guatemala====
{{Main|Religion in Guatemala}}
Protestants remained a small portion of the population until the late-twentieth century, when various Protestant groups experienced a demographic boom that coincided with the increasing violence of the Guatemalan Civil War. Two former Guatemalan heads of state, General [[Efraín Ríos Montt]] and [[Jorge Serrano Elías]] have been practicing Evangelical Protestants, as is Guatemala's former President, [[Jimmy Morales]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Garrard-Burnett |title=Protestantism in Guatemala |pages=138–61}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Garrard-Burnett |first=Virginia |title=Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt 1982–1983 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |location=New York}}</ref> General Montt, an Evangelical from the Pentecostal tradition, came to power through a coup. He escalated the war against leftist guerrilla insurgents as a holy war against atheistic "forces of evil".{{sfn|Chesnut|1997|p=[https://archive.org/details/bornagaininbrazi0000ches/page/145 145]}}