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In 2002, according to nationwide surveys, 11.7% reported themselves as non-religious, while the metropolitan area they were 9.5%, in other regions the percent were substantially higher, being 15.4% in the northern-west and 17.7% in Peten. [11] [12] By 1998–1999, the Department of Health survey found that 16% of population was irreligious. [13]
According to Tomas Straka of Andres Bello University, Chávez's cult of personality began following the 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts which Chávez led, with Straka explaining that some Venezuelans "saw no solution to their most fundamental problems and they saw in Chávez a savior, or an avenger of those groups that had no hope". [10]
Jesus is said to have lived a life of piety and generosity, and abstained from eating flesh of swine. Muslims also believe that Jesus received a Gospel from God, called the Injil. However, Muslims hold that Jesus' original message was lost or altered and that the Christian New Testament does not accurately represent God's original message to ...
Human Rights Watch called attention to Chávez's authoritarian tendencies back in 2008, but many intellectuals on the left were so drawn by his willingness to turn Venezuela into a laboratory for ...
Adherents of Judaism do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah or Prophet nor do they believe he was the Son of God.In the Jewish perspective, it is believed that the way Christians see Jesus goes against monotheism, a belief in the absolute unity and singularity of God, which is central to Judaism; [1] Judaism sees the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, which is forbidden. [2]
Venezuelans have come to feel the crisis as one numbingly featureless expanse of struggles, though they use some of its bigger calamities to parse out one year from another: 2017 had mass anti ...
What is equally striking in talking with Venezuela's Jews, to the extent that generalizations are ever possible, is an obvious pride in being Venezuelan. Not only do they continue to appreciate the refuge the country provided—the Jews having come in search of safety and opportunity — but they also recognize the country's postwar record of ...
Demonstrators clash with police close to an armored police car during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan ...