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Religion in Greece
Religion in Greece is dominated by Eastern Orthodox Christianity, named the "prevailing religion" by the constitution, alongside a Muslim minority in Western Thrace and smaller Catholic and Jewish communities.
Religion in Hungary
Religion in Hungary is dominated by Roman Catholicism, with a historically significant Reformed minority; in the 2022 census, the religiously affiliated became a minority for the first time.
Religion in India
Religion in India describes the faiths of a constitutionally secular country where the 2011 census counted 79.8% Hindus and 14.2% Muslims, with ten states restricting religious conversion.
Religion in Indonesia
Religion in Indonesia rests on Pancasila, whose first principle is belief in one God; the state recognizes six religions, and about 87 percent of Indonesians are Muslim.
Religion in Iran
Religion in Iran, historically Religion in Persia, is dominated by Twelver Shia Islam, the official state religion since the Safavids made it so in the 16th century.
Religion in Iraq
Religion in Iraq is predominantly Muslim and Shia-majority, with the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala holiest in Twelver Shi'ism; historic Christian, Yazidi, and other minorities have sharply declined since 2003.
Religion in Israel
Religion in Israel is organized around state-recognized religious communities whose courts control marriage and divorce, with no civil marriage; in 2023 the population was about 73% Jewish and 18% Muslim.
Religion in Italy
Religion in Italy is dominated culturally by Roman Catholicism, with about 71% of Italians identifying as Catholic, and Orthodox, Muslim, and Protestant minorities driven by immigration.
Religion in Japan
Religion in Japan blends Shinto and Buddhist practice: most households keep both a god-shelf and a Buddhist altar, yet only 10 to 15 percent of Japanese describe themselves as religious.
Religion in Kazakhstan
Religion in Kazakhstan: Hanafi Sunni Islam (about 70-78%) and Russian Orthodoxy (about 19-26%) dominate; shaped by Soviet atheization, a restrictive 2011 religion law, and Astana's interfaith congresses.
Religion in Kerala
Religion in Kerala, also called Religions of Kerala, is unusually diverse: in 2011 the state was 54.73 percent Hindu, 26.56 percent Muslim, and 18.38 percent Christian, with India's largest Christian population.
Religion in Korea
Religion in Korea is a landscape where most people identify with no religion, yet Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, shamanism, and indigenous Korean religions remain active and visible.
Religion in Lebanon
Religion in Lebanon is organized under a confessional system that distributes state power among 18 recognized religious communities, with the presidency, premiership, and speakership reserved by sect.
Religion in Malaysia
Religion in Malaysia: Islam is the constitutionally established religion of the Federation (63.5% in 2020), alongside Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and indigenous beliefs, under a dual civil-sharia legal system.
Religion in Mauritius
Religion in Mauritius: a multireligious population, roughly 48% Hindu, 26% Roman Catholic, 17% Muslim, 6% other Christian (2011 census), shaped by slavery and Indian indenture, with no state religion.
Religion in Mexico
Religion in Mexico is historically dominated by Roman Catholicism, counted at 77.7% of the population in the 2020 census, though Protestant, folk, and unaffiliated groups are rapidly growing.
Religion in Morocco
Religion in Morocco: Islam is the state religion under the 2011 constitution, the king is Commander of the Faithful, about 99.7% Muslim, with state-run mosques, small Christian, Jewish, Shia, Ahmadi, and Baha'i minorities, and a legal ban on proselytizing.
Religion in Myanmar
Religion in Myanmar, also known as Religion in Burma, is dominated by Theravada Buddhism, about 88 percent of the population, alongside Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and animist minorities.
Religion in Nazi Germany
Religion in Nazi Germany, also called Religion in the Third Reich, covers church-state relations from 1933 to 1945, when the regime signed a concordat with the Vatican.
Religion in Nepal
Religion in Nepal covers a Hindu majority of 81.19 percent, the world's largest national Hindu share, alongside Buddhist, Kirat, Muslim, and Christian communities in a constitutionally secular state.
Religion in New Zealand
Religion in New Zealand covers the country's beliefs and religious institutions: at the 2023 census, 51.6 percent reported no religion and Christianity remained largest at 32.3 percent.
Religion in Nigeria
Religion in Nigeria: Islam (about 56% of the population, mostly in the north) and Christianity (about 43%, mostly in the south) dominate; no census religion data since 1963, sharia in 12 northern states, blasphemy prosecutions, and widespread insurgent and communal violence affect both faiths.
Religion in North Korea
Religion in North Korea is limited to state-supervised organizations and underground faith, having fallen from about a quarter of the population in 1950 to under 1 percent.
Religion in Northern Ireland
Religion in Northern Ireland is divided mainly between Catholic and Protestant Christian traditions. The 2021 census found 45.7% Catholic by background, edging past Protestants for the first time.
Religion in Norway
Religion in Norway is dominated by the evangelical-Lutheran Church of Norway, which held 60.9 percent of the population in 2025 in an increasingly secular country.
Religion in Pakistan
Religion in Pakistan, also described as the religions of Pakistan, is dominated by Islam, the state religion, with about 96 percent of the population Muslim in 2023.
Religion in Poland
Religion in Poland is dominated by Roman Catholicism, the affiliation of a large majority of Poles, though weekly practice fell to 34% in 2024, its lowest recorded level.
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, also called Arabian polytheism, was the set of beliefs and rituals practiced across Arabia before Islam, ranging from tribal polytheism to monotheism.
Religion in Romania
Religion in Romania is dominated by the Romanian Orthodox Church, with 85.3% of believers in the 2021 census, plus Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, and Jewish minorities.
Religion in Russia
Religion in Russia is dominated by a largely non-observant Orthodox Christian majority and a sizable Muslim minority, with a 1997 law naming Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism traditional religions.