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The Catholic branch of Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Spain, with high levels of secularization as of 2024. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution . The Pew Research Center ranked Spain as the 16th out of 34 European countries in levels of religiosity, with 21% of the population declaring they were ...
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Religion in Spain by autonomous community (4 C) * Spain religion-related lists (1 C, 2 P) B. Buddhism in Spain (2 C, 2 P) C. Christianity in Spain (13 C, 7 P) E.
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research ... Spain: 46,080,000 23,961,600 52.0 967,680 2.10 20,321,280 44.1 ...
The most widely practiced religion in Barcelona is Catholic Christianity but secularization is strong, in line with the Spanish and other Western European trends. [2] [3] [4] After Christianity, Islam is the second largest religion. [5] [6] [7] The city also has the largest Jewish community in Spain, with an estimated 3,500 Jewish residents. [8]
The Republican government which came to power in Spain in 1931 was strongly anti-clerical, secularising education, prohibiting religious education in the schools, and expelling the Jesuits from the country. In May 1931 a wave of attacks hit Church properties in Madrid, Andalucia and the Levant, as dozens of religious buildings, including ...
The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875-1998 (1998; reprint 2012) Jedin, Hubert, and John Dolan, eds. History of the Church, Volume X: The Church in the Modern Age (1989) Lannon, Frances. Privilege, Persecution, and Prophecy. The Catholic Church in Spain 1875-1975. (Oxford UP, 1987) Payne, Stanley G. Spanish Catholicism: An Historical Overview (1984)
Arrests 2013–2017 show that 4 out of 10 arrested were Spanish nationals and 3 out of 10 were born in Spain. Most others had Morocco as a country of nationality or birth with its main focus among Moroccan descendants residing in the North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla. The most prominent jihadist presence was the province of Barcelona.