Editing Ecuador (section)

===Religion===
{{Main|Religion in Ecuador}}
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According to the Ecuadorian National Institute of Statistics and Census, 91.95% of the country's population have a religion, 7.94% are [[Atheism|atheists]] and 0.11% are [[Agnosticism|agnostics]]. Among the people who have a religion, 80.44% are [[Catholic Church in Ecuador|Catholic]], 11.30% are [[Evangelical]] [[Protestantism|Protestants]], 1.29% are [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] and 6.97% other (mainly Jewish, Buddhists and Latter-day Saints).<ref>{{in lang|es}} [http://www.lahora.com.ec/index.php/noticias/show/1101377532/-1/El_80%25_de_ecuatorianos_es_cat%C3%B3lico.html El 80% de ecuatorianos es católico] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811033609/http://www.lahora.com.ec/index.php/noticias/show/1101377532/-1/El_80%25_De_ecuatorianos_es_cat%C3%B3lico.html |date=11 August 2013 }}. lahora.com.ec. 15 August 2012</ref><ref>{{in lang|es}} [http://www.eluniverso.com/2012/08/15/1/1382/80-ecuatorianos-afirma-ser-catolico-segun-inec.html El 80% de los ecuatorianos afirma ser católico, según el INEC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819020308/http://www.eluniverso.com/2012/08/15/1/1382/80-ecuatorianos-afirma-ser-catolico-segun-inec.html |date=19 August 2012 }}. eluniverso.com. 15 August 2012</ref>

In the rural parts of Ecuador, Amerindian beliefs and Catholicism are sometimes [[syncretism|syncretized]] into a local form of [[folk Catholicism]]. Most festivals and annual parades are based on religious celebrations, many incorporating a mixture of rites and icons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Religious Beliefs |date=25 April 2017 |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/religious-beliefs-in-ecuador.html |publisher=World Atlas |access-date=5 June 2024 |archive-date=5 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605215603/https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/religious-beliefs-in-ecuador.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:La Compañía, Quito - 6.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Church of La Compañía, Quito|Colonial Jesuit Convent of Quito]]]]
There is a small number of [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Christians]], Amerindian religions, Muslims (see [[Islam in Ecuador]]), [[Buddhist]]s and [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]]. According to their estimates, [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] accounts for about 1.4% of the population, or 211,165 members at the end of 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/ecuador|title=LDS Newsroom, Facts and Statistics, Ecuador|publisher=mormonnewsroom.org|access-date=13 September 2014|archive-date=28 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628002604/https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/ecuador|url-status=live}}</ref> According to their sources there were 92,752 [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] in the country in 2017.<ref>2017 Service Year Report of Jehovah's Witnesses</ref>

The [[History of the Jews in Ecuador]] goes back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Until the 20th century, the majority were [[Sephardic]] with many [[Anusim]] ([[Crypto-Jews]]) among them. Ashkenazi Jews arrived mostly as refugees after the ascendance of [[Nazism|National Socialism]] in Germany in 1933, with 3,000 Jews in Ecuador in 1940. At its peak, in 1950, the Jewish population of Ecuador was estimated at 4,000, but then diminished to some 290 around 2020,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jewishmiami.org/communitypost/happening/37842/from_oy_to_joy_at_miami_jewish_film_festival|title=The Lost Sephardic Tribes of Latin America|work=Greater Miami Jewish Federation Community Post|access-date=13 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630161407/http://jewishmiami.org/communitypost/happening/37842/from_oy_to_joy_at_miami_jewish_film_festival|archive-date=30 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Ecuador.html |title=Jews in Ecuador |publisher=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |access-date=22 January 2014 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717013541/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Ecuador.html |url-status=live }}</ref> forming one of the smallest Jewish communities in [[South America]]. Nevertheless, this number is declining because young people leave the country for the United States or Israel. Today, the Jewish Community of Ecuador (Comunidad Judía del Ecuador) has its seat in [[Quito]]. There are very small communities in [[Cuenca (Ecuador)|Cuenca]]. The "Comunidad de Culto Israelita" reunites the Jews of [[Guayaquil]]. This community works independently from the "Jewish Community of Ecuador" and is composed of only 30 people.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071103105731/http://www.congresojudio.org.ar/comunidades.asp?id=ecuador Población total 11,700,000 ~ Población judía 1000]. Congreso Judío</ref>