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St. Paul's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the oldest Anglican church in Canada still standing, built in 1750. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Indigenous peoples followed a wide array of mostly animistic religions and spirituality; [13] [41] [14] [42] [15] [43] [44] "including the presence of creation stories, the role of tricksters or of supernatural beings in folklore and the importance ...
Religion has been a major influence on art, culture, philosophy and law of the continent. Between them, the United States, Mexico and Canada account for 85 percent of the population of North America. Religion in each of these countries is dominated by Christianity (77.4), [2] [3] making it the largest religious group in North America.
A map of Canada by province and territory showing the distribution of the population by religious affiliation in 2021. Christianity is the most adhered-to religion in Canada, with 19,373,330 Canadians, or 53.3%, identifying themselves as of the 2021 census. [1] [2] The preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms refers to God.
The status of religious freedom in North America varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion (and the legal implications that this has for both practitioners and non-practitioners), the extent to which religious organizations operating within the ...
Modeling the provisions concerning religion within the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the framers of the Constitution rejected any religious test for office, and the First Amendment specifically denied the federal government any power to enact any law respecting either an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise, thus ...
Canada religion-related lists (2 C, 6 P) Canadian people by religion (15 C) A. Canadian religion academics (1 C, 13 P) B. Bahá'í Faith in Canada (1 C, 1 P)
Non-profit pollster Latinobarómetro found 0.3% of the Argentine population in 2023 said they had practiced an Afro-American religion for at least 6 years, up from 0.1% in 2008.
North American religious biography stubs (3 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Religion in North America" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.