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The number of Mexican Catholics has fallen by 5% in the first decade of the 21st century and in the south-east Catholics make up less than two-thirds of the population. [11] In absolute terms, Mexico has 90,224,559 Catholics, [1] which is the world's second largest number of Catholics, surpassed only by Brazil. [12]
According to the Mexican census, Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion in Mexico, practiced by 77.7 percent of the population in 2020. [1] A Statistica survey suggests this number could be a little lower, suggesting Catholics could make up 72 percent of the nation.
العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Чӑвашла
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Religion was an issue in the 1988 elections, with the leftist newspaper La Jornada surveying the prospective candidates about their stance on religious freedom in Mexico. [180] Technocrat Carlos Salinas de Gortari declined to answer the survey and Mexican bishops were concerned about Salinas's attitude toward Church-State relations. [ 181 ]
The constitution declares that Mexico is a secular state and provides for the right to religious freedom. [1] In 2023, the country was scored 4 out of 4 for religious freedom. [10] In the same year, the country was ranked as the 38th most difficult place in the world to be a Christian. [11]
The Spanish arrival and colonization brought Roman Catholicism to the country, which became the main religion of Mexico. Mexico is a secular state, and the Constitution of 1917 and anti-clerical law imposed limitations on the church and sometimes codified state intrusion into church matters. The government does not provide any financial ...
Irreligion in Mexico refers to atheism, deism, religious skepticism, secularism, and secular humanism in Mexican society, which was a confessional state after independence from Imperial Spain. The first political constitution of the Mexican United States , enacted in 1824, stipulated that Roman Catholicism was the national religion in ...