Editing Philippines (section)

=== Religion ===
{{Main|Religion in the Philippines}}
[[File:Sto. Nino Basilica de Cebu from the Pligrim's Center.jpg|thumb|alt=Large crowd outside a colorfully-decorated church|Catholics attend Mass at [[Basilica del Santo Niño]] during the annual [[Sinulog]] festival in [[Cebu]].]]

Although the Philippines is a [[Secularism in the Philippines|secular state]] with [[Freedom of religion in the Philippines|freedom of religion]], an overwhelming majority of Filipinos [[Importance of religion by country|consider religion very important]]<ref>{{cite report |last1=Tamir |first1=Christine |last2=Connaughton |first2=Aidan |last3=Salazar |first3=Ariana Monique |date=July 20, 2020 |title=The Global God Divide |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/07/20/the-global-god-divide/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722193955/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/07/20/the-global-god-divide/ |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |access-date=February 18, 2023 |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]}}</ref> and [[Irreligion in the Philippines|irreligion]] is very low.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Bullivant |editor-first1=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93VoAgAAQBAJ |title=The Oxford Handbook of Atheism |editor-last2=Ruse |editor-first2=Michael |date=November 21, 2013 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford, England |isbn=978-0-19-166739-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=93VoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA563 563]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Martin |editor-first1=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAeFipOVx4MC |title=The Cambridge Companion to Atheism |date=October 30, 2006 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=978-1-139-82739-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tAeFipOVx4MC&pg=PA61 61] |language=en |author-link2=Michael Ruse}}</ref><ref name="PSAGovPH-2015Census-Religion">{{cite report |publisher=[[Philippine Statistics Authority]] |url=https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2015%20CPH_REPORT%20NO.%202_PHILIPPINES.pdf |title=2015 Census of Population, Report No. 2 – Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics Philippines |date=June 2017 |at=Table 8: Total Population by Religious Affiliation and Sex: 2015 |issn=0117-1453 |access-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009143047/http://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2015%20CPH_REPORT%20NO.%202_PHILIPPINES.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Christianity in the Philippines|Christianity]] is the dominant religion<ref>{{cite report |date=July 28, 2014 |title=2013 International Religious Freedom Report |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2013/eap/222161.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526202948/https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2013/eap/222161.htm |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |access-date=July 15, 2020 |publisher=[[United States Department of State]], [[Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor]]}}</ref><ref name="StateGov-ReligiousFreedom-2015">{{cite report |date=2014 |title=Philippines 2015 International Religious Freedom Report |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/256347.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121020127/https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/256347.pdf |archive-date=January 21, 2017 |access-date=April 11, 2023 |publisher=[[United States Department of State]], [[Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor]] |pages=1–2}}</ref> followed by about 89 percent of the population.<ref>{{cite report |date=June 2, 2022 |title=2021 Report on International Religious Freedom: Philippines |url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-report-on-international-religious-freedom/philippines/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209100417/https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-report-on-international-religious-freedom/philippines/ |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=February 7, 2023 |website=[[United States Department of State]] |publisher=[[Office of International Religious Freedom]] |at=Section I. Religious Demography}}</ref> The country had the [[Catholic Church by country|world's third-largest Roman Catholic population]] {{as of|2013|lc=y}}, and was Asia's [[Christianity in Asia|largest Christian nation]].<ref>{{cite report |date=February 13, 2013 |title=The Global Catholic Population |url=https://www.pewforum.org/2013/02/13/the-global-catholic-population/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928103612/https://www.pewforum.org/2013/02/13/the-global-catholic-population/ |archive-date=September 28, 2013 |publisher=[[Pew Research Center|Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project]] |at=Which countries have the most Catholics now?}}</ref> Census data from [[2020 Philippine census|2020]] found that 78.8 percent of the population professed [[Catholic Church in the Philippines|Roman Catholicism]];{{efn|name=Catholic-2020Census}} other [[List of Christian denominations in the Philippines|Christian denominations]] include {{lang|tl|[[Iglesia ni Cristo]]|italic=no}}, the [[Philippine Independent Church]], and [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventism]].<ref name="PSAGovPH-2020Census-Religion">{{Cite press release |last=Mapa |first=Dennis S. |author-link1=Dennis Mapa |date=February 22, 2023 |title=Religious Affiliation in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing) |url=https://psa.gov.ph/content/religious-affiliation-philippines-2020-census-population-and-housing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310184554/https://psa.gov.ph/content/religious-affiliation-philippines-2020-census-population-and-housing |archive-date=March 10, 2023 |access-date=March 12, 2023 |publisher=[[Philippine Statistics Authority]]}}</ref> [[Protestantism in the Philippines|Protestants]] made up about 5% to 7% of the population in 2010.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Arun W. |title=Local Agency and the Reception of Protestantism in the Philippines |journal=Journal of Asian/North American Theological Educators |date=2016 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=61 |url=http://janate.org/index.php/janate/article/download/1319/2198 |access-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109154652/http://janate.org/index.php/janate/article/download/1319/2198 |archive-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|title=Protestant Christianity in the Philippines |url=https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/faq/protestant-christianity-philippines |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421202509/https://rlp.hds.harvard.edu/faq/protestant-christianity-philippines |archive-date=April 21, 2016 |access-date=February 7, 2023 |website=Religious Literacy Project |publisher=[[Harvard Divinity School]]}}</ref> The Philippines sends many [[Christian mission]]aries around the world, and is a training center for foreign priests and nuns.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|news|date=July 16, 2015 |title=Religious and lay Filipino missionaries in the world are "Christ first witnesses |language=en |work=[[AsiaNews]] |url=https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Religious-and-lay-Filipino-missionariesin-the-world-are-%E2%80%9CChrist-first-witnesses-34790.html |access-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423154532/https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Religious-and-lay-Filipino-missionariesin-the-world-are-%E2%80%9CChrist-first-witnesses-34790.html |archive-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Sebastian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_YAdDQAAQBAJ |title=Christianity as a World Religion: An Introduction |edition=Second |last2=Kim |first2=Kirsteen |date=November 3, 2016 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |location=London, England |isbn=978-1-4725-6936-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_YAdDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA70 70] |language=en |author-link1=Sebastian Kim |author-link2=Kirsteen Kim}}</ref>

[[Islam in the Philippines|Islam]] is the country's second-largest religion, with 6.4 percent of the population in the 2020 census.<ref name="PSAGovPH-2020Census-Religion" /> Most Muslims live in Mindanao and nearby islands,<ref name="StateGov-ReligiousFreedom-2015" /> and most adhere to the [[Shafi'i school]] of [[Sunni Islam]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=An-Na'im |editor-first1=Abdullahi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg0zCFM0fwkC |title=Islamic Family Law in a Changing World: A Global Resource Book |date=October 11, 2002 |publisher=[[Zed Books]] |location=London, England |isbn=978-1-84277-093-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Hg0zCFM0fwkC&pg=PA5 5]}}</ref>

About 0.2 percent of the population follow [[indigenous Philippine folk religions|indigenous religions]],<ref name="PSAGovPH-2020Census-Religion" /> whose practices and folk beliefs are often [[Religious syncretism|syncretized]] with Christianity and Islam.<ref name="Rodell-2002" />{{rp|pages={{plain link|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1CVR74_KHQC&pg=PA29|name=29–30}}}}<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Min |editor-first1=Pyong Gap |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUx7AAAAQBAJ |title=Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities |editor-last2=Kim |editor-first2=Jung Ha |date=2001 |publisher=[[AltaMira Press]] |location=Walnut Creek, Calif. |isbn=978-1-4616-4762-1 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EUx7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 144] |editor-link1=Pyong Gap Min}}</ref> [[Buddhism in the Philippines|Buddhism]] is practiced by about 0.04% of the population,<ref name="PSAGovPH-2020Census-Religion" /> primarily by Filipinos of Chinese descent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Yu |first=Jose Vidamor B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4WqAOKb5c8C |title=Inculturation of Filipino-Chinese Culture Mentality |series=Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations |volume=3 |date=2000 |publisher=[[Pontificia Università Gregoriana]] |location=Rome, Italy |isbn=978-88-7652-848-4 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=c4WqAOKb5c8C&pg=PA87 87–88]}}</ref>