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Religion in Saudi Arabia
Religion in Saudi Arabia is Islam, the official state religion under the 1992 Basic Law; most citizens are Sunni, about 10 to 12 percent Shia.
Religion in Scotland
Scottish religion centers on the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the national church since the 1560 Reformation, though 51.1% of Scots reported no religion in 2022.
Religion in Singapore
Religion in Singapore is the faith landscape of a population Pew Research Center named the world's most religiously diverse in 2014, with Buddhism the largest faith.
Religion in South Africa
Religion in South Africa: Census 2022 shows 85.3% Christian, 7.8% Traditional African religion, 2.9% unaffiliated; Hinduism concentrated among Indian South Africans; constitution guarantees religious freedom.
Religion in South Korea
Religion in South Korea is marked by a large unaffiliated majority alongside three sizable traditions: the 2015 census counted 56.1 percent non-religious, with Protestants, Buddhists, and Catholics of comparable size.
Religion in Spain
Religion in Spain is the religious life of a constitutionally non-confessional state, where Catholic identification fell from about 90% in the late 1970s to 55% in 2025.
Religion in Sri Lanka
Religion in Sri Lanka is the practice of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity on the island, where the 2024 census counted 69.8% Buddhist, 12.6% Hindu, and 10.7% Muslim.
Religion in Sweden
Religion in Sweden centers on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden, which held 51.4% of Swedes in 2024, down from 95.2% in 1972, in a highly secular society.
Religion in Syria
Religion in Syria covers the beliefs, communities, and legal status of the country's religious groups, mostly Sunni Muslims alongside Alawites, Druze, Ismailis, and Christians, with no sectarian census since 1960.
Religion in Thailand
Religion in Thailand is dominated by Theravada Buddhism, practiced by roughly nine in ten Thais, alongside a Muslim minority in the far south and a syncretic blend of Buddhist, animist, and Brahmanical elements.
Religion in the Czech Republic
Religion in the Czech Republic, also called religion in Czechia, is among Europe's most secular: 68.3% of respondents reported no religious belief in the 2021 census.
Religion in the Maldives
Religion in the Maldives is defined by Sunni Islam, the state's sole lawful public religion, after the islands' conversion from Buddhism around 1153, a date copper-plate inscriptions contest.
Religion in the Middle East
Religion in the Middle East describes the region's faiths, birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, where Muslims were 94% of 440 million people in 2020.
Religion in the Mongol Empire
Religion in the Mongol Empire combined Mongol worship of the sky god Tenggeri with tolerated Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, and Daoist communities, whose clergy received tax exemptions for praying for the khan.
Religion in the Netherlands
Religion in the Netherlands covers a historically Christian country that became religiously plural, with 42 percent affiliated in 2025: 16 percent Catholic, 12 percent Protestant, 6 percent Muslim.
Religion in the Philippines
Religion in the Philippines is dominated by Roman Catholicism, the faith of 78.8% of the 2020 census population, making the country the world's third-largest Catholic nation.
Religion in the Republic of Ireland
Religion in the Republic of Ireland has moved from a largely Catholic society to a plural, secularizing one: 69 percent Catholic in 2022, down from 92.6 percent in 1926.
Religion in the Soviet Union
Religion in the Soviet Union, also known as Religion in the USSR, was practiced under a state that suppressed, then regulated, religion until liberalization in 1990.
Religion in the United Kingdom
Religion in the United Kingdom, also called Religion in the UK, has two established churches, the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, and declining Christian affiliation.
Religion in the United States
Religion in the United States is constitutionally disestablished and unusually religious among wealthy nations: about 63% of adults are Christian, 29% unaffiliated, and weekly attendance has fallen since 2000.
Religion in Turkey
Religion in Turkey, also described as religious groups in Turkey, is shaped by a secular republic where the state Diyanet administers Sunni Islam, employs imams, and writes the Friday sermon.
Religion in Ukraine
Religion in Ukraine is dominated by Eastern Orthodox Christianity, divided since 2018–2019 between the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Moscow Patriarchate church, alongside a Greek Catholic minority.
Religion in Vietnam
Religion in Vietnam blends Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and ancestor veneration, alongside Catholicism and home-grown sects; 96 percent of adults burned incense for ancestors in 2024.
Religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation
The religion of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Harappan civilization of about 2600 to 1900 BC, is known only from seals, figurines, architecture, and burials, as its script is undeciphered.
Religion of the Shang dynasty
Religion of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BCE): state cult of Di (Shangdi), royal ancestor worship, oracle-bone divination, and sacrifice including over 10,000 recorded human sacrifices, administered by the king and over 120 named diviners.
Religious affiliation in the United States Senate
Religious affiliation in the U.S. Senate: senators' self-identified religions per CQ Roll Call/Pew "Faith on the Hill" data. 119th Congress: 59% Protestant, 24% Catholic, 9% Jewish senators; one Buddhist; no Muslim senators; far more Christian than the public.
Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States
The religious affiliations of US presidents are the denominations they belonged to; nearly all were Christians, with only two Catholics, Kennedy and Biden, and three unaffiliated presidents.
Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein
Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein: his Spinoza-pantheist, agnostic conception of God, 'cosmic religion,' the 'lame/blind' dictum, rejection of personal God and scripture, and cultural Jewish identity.
Religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting, also called religious programming, is the production of faith-based radio, television, and digital content. In the United States it includes more than 4,000 radio stations, mostly Christian.
Religious Chronicle
The Religious Chronicle is a Babylonian chronicle text, designated ABC 17, a late copy of earlier records found in the Esagil temple library at Babylon in the 1870s.