Bartolomé de las Casas

While “discovering” America, Columbus destroyed an entire civilization. This was that of the Arawak Indians, whom he enslaved for his own purposes. Columbus was a ruthless murderer who essentially killed and destroyed many lives and homes, with no legitimate reason. The Arawak Indians withstood brutal torture from Columbus and his comrades, but finally, they fled. Still, they were hunted down, tortured, and killed. Now, not one Arawak Indian remains alive today. Columbus was a very greedy,…

Introduction Guatemala has become the leading place for conducting researches on religions in Latin America. The predominant religions in Guatemala are Catholicism, Christianity and Mayan spirituality. However, during the colonial era, Catholicism was the main religion. There has been a tremendous growth in the Protestants community. According to the The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, “Pentecostals represent the most rapidly growing sector of Latin American Protestantism”. The other…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, initiated colonization by Europe in the New World when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. English and Spanish colonies grew to become very different from one another with frequent similarities. The Spanish colonies and New England greatly differed in terms of control by a European government, were both vastly similar and extremely different in terms of religion, and were largely similar in terms of treatment of indigenous…