{"id":1435,"date":"2012-02-24T08:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-02-07T20:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:24:34","slug":"third-largest-city-in-the-world-mexico-city-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.operationbolivia.com\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Third Largest City in the World: Mexico City, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Overview of Mexico City<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mexico City<\/strong> is the Federal District capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union.It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country\u2019s largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center.<\/p>\n

Set over 2400m above sea level in a shallow mountain bowl, and crammed with over twenty million people, Mexico City is one of the world\u2019s most densely populated urban areas. Although it does have a high crime rate, and some terrible pollution, the capital is nowhere near as intimidating as you might expect.<\/p>\n

The city radiates out from the Z\u00f3calo, or main square, as much the heart of the modern capital as it was of the Aztec city that once sat here. Immediately to its west, in the streets between the Z\u00f3calo and the garden known as the Alameda, is the city\u2019s main commercial area. Beyond that, the glitzy Zona Rosa, with trendy Condesa to its south, stretches towards Chapultepec Park \u2013 home to the incredible Museo Nacional de Antropolog\u00eda \u2013 and the rich enclave of Polanco, while Avenida de los Insurgentes leads down to the more laid-back barrios of San \u00c1ngel and Coyoac\u00e1n. Around the outer edges of the city are shantytowns, built piecemeal by migrants from elsewhere in the country. Hidden among these less affluent communities are a number of gems, such as the pyramids of Tenayauca, Santa Cecilia and Cuicuilco, and the canals of Xochimilco. (source 1,<\/a> source 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Religion in Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mexican population is predominantly Catholic (in the 2010 census, 83.9% of the population 5 and older identified themselves as Catholic),even though a much smaller percent (46%) attends church on a weekly basis. About 5.2% of the population was classified as Protestant or Evangelic, 2.1% were classified as \u201cNon-Evangelical Biblical\u201d (a classification that groups Adventists, Mormons and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses), 0.05% as practicing Jews, and 2.5% without a religion.The largest group of Protestants are Pentecostals and Charismatics (classified as Neo-Pentecostals).<\/p>\n

The states with the greatest percentage or professing Catholics are central states, namely Guanajuato (96.4%), Aguascalientes (95.6%) and Jalisco (95.4%), whereas southeastern states have the least percentage of Catholics, namely Chiapas (63.8%), Tabasco (70.4%) and Campeche (71.3%).The percentage of professing Catholics has been decreasing over the last four decades, from over 98% in 1950 to 87.9% in 2000. Average annual growth of Catholic believers from 1990\u20132000 was 1.7% whereas that of Non-Catholics was 3.7%. Given that average annual population increase over the same time period was 1.8%,the percentage of Catholics with respect to total population is still decreasing.<\/p>\n

Unlike some other countries in Latin America or Ibero-America, the 1857 Mexican Constitution drastically separated Church and State. The State does not support or provide any economic resource for the Church (as is the case in Spain and Argentina),and the Church cannot participate in public education (no public school can be operated by a Catholic order, even though they can participate in private education). Moreover, the government nationalized all the Church\u2019s properties (some of which were given back in the 1990s), and priests lost the right to vote or to be voted for (in the 1990s they were given back the right to vote).\u00a0(source)<\/a><\/p>\n

Would you pray that God would send laborers to this city and country to lift His name high?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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