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The constitution of Haiti establishes the freedom of religion. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs oversees and monitors religious groups and laws affecting them. While Catholicism has not been the state religion since 1987, a 19th-century concordat with the Holy See continues to confer preferential treatment to the Catholic Church, in the form of ...
Haiti is a majority Christian country. Figures in 2020 suggest that 93% of the population belong to a Christian denomination. [1] Haiti saw the introduction of Christianity when Europeans arrived to colonize the island. It was first introduced by the Spanish, later followed by French colonialists. The primary brand of Christianity was Catholicism.
The state religion is Roman Catholicism, which is professed by 55–60% of the population. 30–35% of Haitians practice Protestantism, mostly Pentecostalism, which arrived in Haiti in the 1970s. Almost 99% of Haitians claim to be a part of at least one religion, with a fraction of them practicing some part of Vodou along with another religion ...
Haitian Vodou [a] (/ ˈ v oʊ d uː /) is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries. It arose through a process of syncretism between several traditional religions of West and Central Africa and Roman Catholicism .
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It designates Haiti as a "do not travel" country in an advisory to U.S. tourists. In 2021, five priests and two nuns were kidnapped from a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
Peace and security in Haiti are the “collective responsibility of all nations,” Ruto said, warning that Kenya will “take that responsibility along with the Haitian police” and “break the ...