Editing Melilla (section)

=== Religion ===
[[File:Resucitado (Semana Santa en Melilla 2009).jpg|thumb|[[Holy Week in Spain|Holy Week]] procession in Melilla]]
Melilla has been praised as an example of [[multiculturalism]], being a small city in which one can find Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists represented.<ref name=modernism>{{cite news|title=Melilla: Where Catalan "Modernisme" Meets North Africa|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-walker/melilla-where-catalan-mod_b_3944043.html|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=19 September 2013}}</ref>

==== Judaism ====
Percentagewise, Melilla may be the most [[Judaism|Jewish]] city in Spain with around 1,000 Jews still living in the city, down from 7,000 around the year 1930 which is mainly due to economic reasons resulting in moving to the Spanish mainland, [[Israel]] or elsewhere. During the second half of the 19th century, many of Sephardic Jews moved from northern Morocco to Melilla. The first ones were traders from the Moroccan cities who came for economic and safety reasons. Later, impoverished Jews from the rural [[Rif|Riffian areas]] joined, also because of safety reasons.<ref name=ElMundo2018Jews>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/papel/cultura/2018/05/30/5b0c31bdca4741d71b8b45a4.html |author=Luis Alemany|title=La última esperanza del barrio judío de Melilla |date=30 May 2018 |access-date=13 January 2024 |language=es}}</ref>

==== Christianity ====
According to the Spanish Center for Sociological Research, [[Roman Catholicism]] is the largest religion in Melilla.<ref name=CIS2019Melilla>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cis.es/cis/export/sites/default/-Archivos/Marginales/3260_3279/3263/Marginales/es3263mar_Melilla.pdf |author=''Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas'' (Centre for Sociological Research)|title=Macrobarómetro de octubre 2019, Banco de datos – Document 'Población con derecho a voto en elecciones generales y residente en España, Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla |date=October 2019|page=20 |access-date=4 February 2020 |language=es}}</ref> In 2019, the proportion of Melillans that identify themselves as Roman Catholic was 65.0% (31.7% define themselves as not practising, while 33.3% as practising). 30% identify as followers of other faiths, 2.7% identify as non-believers, and 2.3% identify as atheists.<ref name="CIS2019Melilla" />

The Roman Catholic churches in Melilla belong to the [[Diocese of Málaga]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laopiniondemalaga.es/malaga/2014/05/31/37-declaraciones-renta-malaga-marcan-28626751.html|website=La Opinión de Málaga|title=El 37% de las declaraciones de la Renta en Málaga marcan la X para la Iglesia|date=31 May 2014|first=José Vicente|last=Rodríguez}}</ref>

==== Islam ====
Some sources indicate that [[Muslim]]s account for roughly half the population in Melilla, which is in conflict with the Spanish Center for Sociological Research reported numbers.{{Sfn|Ponce Herrero|Martí Ciriquián|2019|p=117}}

==== Hinduism ====
There is a small, autonomous, and commercially important Hindu community present in Melilla, which has fallen over the past decades as its members move to the Spanish mainland and numbers about 100 members today.<ref name=modernism />