Editing Culture of Mexico (section)

==Religion==
{{main|Religion in Mexico}}
{{See also|Holy Week in Mexico|Our Lady of Guadalupe|Child Jesus images in Mexico}}
[[File:Cubilete.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Cerro del Cubilete]] ("Dice Cup Hill"). At the top of the hill is the [[Cristo Rey (statue, Mexico)|''Cristo Rey'']] ([[Christ]] the [[King]]) statue.]]
[[File:Alfombra_Huamantla.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Sawdust carpet]] made during "The night no one sleeps" in Huamantla, Tlaxcala]]

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 contributions to the church, and the church does not participate in public education.<ref>{{Cite Catholic Encyclopedia|title=Mexico|url=https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/mexico}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reich |first1=Peter L. |title=The Mexican Catholic Church and Constitutional Change since 1929 |journal=[[The Historian (journal)|The Historian]] |date=Fall 1997 |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=77–86 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1997.tb01388.x |jstor=24451552 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24451552}}</ref>

In 2010, 95.6% of the population were [[Christianity|Christian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mexico/|title=The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|date=12 September 2022 }}</ref> [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholics]] are 89%<ref name="tabulados">{{cite web|title=Religión|work=Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2000|year=2000|publisher=[[INEGI]]|url=http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/censos/poblacion/2000/definitivos/Nal/tabulados/00re01.pdf|access-date=2 August 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215060031/http://www.inegi.gob.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/censos/poblacion/2000/definitivos/Nal/tabulados/00re01.pdf|archive-date=15 December 2005}}</ref> of the total, 47% percent of whom attend church services weekly.<ref>{{cite web |title=Church attendance |work=Study of worldwide rates of religiosity |year=1997 |publisher=University of Michigan |url=http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/print.php?Releases/1997/Dec97/chr121097a |access-date=2007-01-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901122224/http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/print.php?Releases%2F1997%2FDec97%2Fchr121097a |archive-date=2006-09-01 }}</ref> In absolute terms, Mexico has the world's second [[Catholic Church by country|largest number of Catholics]] after [[Brazil]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_romcath.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818085719/http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_romcath.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 18, 2000 |title=The Largest Catholic Communities |access-date=2007-11-10 |work=Adherents.com}}</ref> According to the Government's 2000 census, approximately 87 percent of respondents identified themselves as at least nominally Roman Catholic. [[Christmas]] is a national holiday and every year during [[Easter]] and Christmas all schools in Mexico, public and private, send their students on vacation.

Other religious groups for which the 2000 census provided estimates included [[evangelicals]], with 1.71 percent of the population; other Protestant evangelical groups, 2.79 percent; members of [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], 1.25 percent; "Historical" Protestants, 0.71 percent; [[Seventh-day Adventists]], 0.58 percent; [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], 0.25 percent; [[Jews]], 0.05 percent; and other religions, 0.31 percent. Approximately 3.52 percent of respondents indicated no religion, and 0.86 percent did not specify a religion.