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===Religion=== {{Main|Religion in Panama}} [[File:Panama Catedral Metropolitana.jpg|thumb|upright|Colonial [[Metropolitan Cathedral of Panama City]]]] {{Pie chart|thumb=right|caption=Religion in Panama (2015)<ref name=2015survey/> |label1=[[Catholics]]|value1=63.2|color1=DarkOrchid|label2=[[Protestants]]|value2=25|color2=DodgerBlue|label3=[[Adventist]]|value3=1.3|color3=SkyBlue|label4=[[Jehovah's Witnesses]]|value4=1.4|color4=Aquamarine|label5=[[Mormons]]|value5=0.6|color5=DarkTurquoise|label6=[[Buddhism]]|value6=0.4|color6=Yellow|label7=[[Judaism]]|value7=0.1|color7=Blue|label8=No religion|value8=7.6|color8=Honeydew|label9=Other religions|value9=0.4|color9=Gold}} [[Christianity]] is the main religion in Panama. An official survey carried out by the government estimated in 2015 that 63.2% of the population, or 2,549,150 people, identifies itself as [[Roman Catholic]], and 25% as [[evangelical Protestant]], or 1,009,740.<ref name="2015survey"/> The [[Baháʼí Faith]] community in Panama is estimated at 2% of the national population, or about 60,000<ref name="WCoC">{{cite web|title = Panama|work = World Council of Churches: WCC Member Churches|publisher = World Council of Churches|date = January 1, 2006|url = http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches|access-date = July 1, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170708044321/http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches|archive-date = July 8, 2017|url-status = dead}}</ref> including about 10% of the [[Guaymí]] population.<ref name="guay">{{Cite journal |last = International Community |first = Baháʼí |author-link = Baháʼí International Community |title = In Panama, some Guaymis blaze a new path |journal = One Country |volume = 1994 |issue = October–December |date = October–December 1994 |url = http://info.bahai.org/article-1-8-1-18.html |access-date = April 7, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140802031749/http://info.bahai.org/article-1-8-1-18.html |archive-date = August 2, 2014 |url-status = dead }}</ref> The [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] were the next largest congregation comprising the 1.4% of the population, followed by the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Adventist Church]] and [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] with 0.6%. Smaller groups include the [[Buddhist]], [[Jewish]], [[Anglicanism|Episcopalian]], [[Islam in Panama|Muslim]] and [[Hindu]] communities.<ref name="report">[https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90262.htm International Religious Freedom Report 2007: Panama] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408234244/https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/90262.htm |date=April 8, 2023 }}. United States [[Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor]] (September 14, 2007). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the [[public domain]].''</ref> Indigenous religions include Ibeorgun (among [[Guna people|Guna]]) and Mamatata (among [[Ngäbe]]).<ref name="report" /> There are also a small number of [[Rastafarians]].<ref name="report" />
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