Editing Honduras (section)

===Religion===
{{Main|Religion in Honduras}}
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Although most Hondurans are nominally [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] (which would be considered the main religion), membership in the Catholic Church is declining while membership in Protestant churches is increasing. The International Religious Freedom Report, 2008, notes that a CID Gallup poll reported that 51.4% of the population identified themselves as Catholic, 36.2% as [[evangelical]] [[Protestant]], 1.3% claiming to be from other religions, including [[Muslims]], [[Buddhists]], [[Jews]], [[Rastafarians]], etc. and 11.1% do not belong to any religion or unresponsive. 8% reported as being either atheistic or agnostic. Customary Catholic church tallies and membership estimates 81% Catholic where the priest (in more than 185 parishes) is required to fill out a pastoral account of the parish each year.<ref>{{cite book|title=Annuario Pontificio|year=2009|isbn=978-88209-81914|publisher=[[Cardinal Secretary of State]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Catholic Almanac|first1=Matthew E.|last1=Bunson|first2=D.|last2=Min|location=Huntington, Ind.|publisher=Sunday Visitor Publishing|year= 2015|isbn=978-1612789446|pages=312–13}}</ref>

The CIA Factbook lists Honduras as 97% Catholic and 3% Protestant.<ref name=cia/> Commenting on statistical variations everywhere, John Green of Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life notes that: "It isn't that ... numbers are more right than [someone else's] numbers ... but how one conceptualizes the group."<ref name=Dart>{{cite journal|first=John|last=Dart|title=How many in mainline Categories vary in surveys|journal=[[The Christian Century]]|date=16 June 2009|url=http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2009-06/how-many-mainline-categories-vary-surveys|page=13|url-access=subscription|volume=126|issue=12|access-date=9 February 2016|archive-date=18 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618191533/http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2009-06/how-many-mainline-categories-vary-surveys|url-status=live}}</ref> Often people attend one church without giving up their "home" church. Many who attend evangelical megachurches in the US, for example, attend more than one church.<ref>Associated Press, 13 June 2009, reported in several papers</ref> This shifting and fluidity is common in Brazil where two-fifths of those who were raised evangelical are no longer evangelical and Catholics seem to shift in and out of various churches, often while still remaining Catholic.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Maria Celi|last1=Scalon|first2=Andrew|last2=Greeley|url=http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=3115|title=Catholics and Protestants in Brazil|journal=[[America (Jesuit magazine)|America]]|date=18 August 2003|page=14|volume=189|issue=4|access-date=17 September 2013|archive-date=5 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305172613/http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=3115|url-status=live}}</ref>

Most pollsters suggest an annual poll taken over a number of years would provide the best method of knowing religious demographics and variations in any single country. Still, in Honduras are thriving [[Anglican]], [[Presbyterian]], [[Methodist]], [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]], [[Lutheran]], [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Latter-day Saint]] ([[Mormonism|Mormon]]) and [[Pentecostal]] churches. There are Protestant seminaries. The Catholic Church, still the only "church" that is recognized, is also thriving in the number of schools, hospitals, and pastoral institutions (including its own medical school) that it operates. Its [[archbishop]], Cardinal [[Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga|Óscar Andrés Rodriguez Maradiaga]], is also very popular with the government, other churches, and in his own church. Practitioners of the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], Jewish, Islamic, [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]], [[Rastafari movement|Rastafari]] and indigenous denominations and religions exist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108530.htm |title=International Religious Freedom Report 2008: Honduras |publisher=U.S. Department of State |date=19 September 2008 |access-date=9 February 2016 |archive-date=15 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415233917/http://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108530.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>