Editing Slovakia (section)

=== Religion ===
{{Main|Religion in Slovakia}}

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The [[Constitution of Slovakia|Slovak constitution]] guarantees [[freedom of religion]]. In 2021, 55.8% of population identified themselves as [[Roman Catholic]]s, 5.3% as [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]], 1.6% as [[Calvinism|Calvinists]], 4% as [[Slovak Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholics]], 0.9% as [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]], 23.8% identified themselves as [[Atheism|atheists]] or non-religious, and 6.5% did not answer the question about their belief.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roman Catholics represents 56% of the population |url=https://www.scitanie.sk/en/roman-catholics-represents-56-percent-of-the-population |website=SODB 2021 |publisher=Štatistický úrad slovenskej republiky |access-date=6 April 2022 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407062041/https://www.scitanie.sk/en/roman-catholics-represents-56-percent-of-the-population |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2004, about one third of the church members regularly attended church services.<ref>{{cite web|last=Manchin|first=Robert|title=Religion in Europe: Trust Not Filling the Pews|publisher=Gallup|year=2004|url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/13117/religion-europe-trust-filling-pews.aspx|access-date=4 December 2009|archive-date=20 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120155549/http://www.gallup.com/poll/13117/religion-europe-trust-filling-pews.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Slovak Greek Catholic Church]] is an Eastern rite [[sui iuris]] Catholic Church. Before World War&nbsp;II, an estimated 90,000 Jews lived in Slovakia (1.6% of the population), but most were murdered during the [[Holocaust]]. After further reductions due to postwar [[aliyah|emigration]] and assimilation, only about 2,300 Jews remain today (0.04% of the population).<ref>{{cite web|last=Vogelsang|first=Peter|author2=Brian B. M. Larsen |title=Deportations|work=The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies|year=2002|url=http://www.holocaust-education.dk/holocaust/deportationer.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810055334/http://www.holocaust-education.dk/holocaust/deportationer.asp|archive-date=10 August 2011|access-date=26 April 2008}}</ref>

There are 18 state-registered religions in Slovakia, of which 16 are Christian, one is Jewish, and one is the [[Baháʼí Faith]].<ref name="Hukelova">{{Cite news|url=http://theconversation.com/slovak-president-vetoes-controversial-law-heaping-hostility-on-muslims-in-central-europe-70546|work=The Conversation|author=Miroslava Hukelova|title=Slovak president vetoes controversial law heaping hostility on Muslims in Central Europe|date=5 January 2017|access-date=20 January 2019|archive-date=13 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213235523/https://theconversation.com/slovak-president-vetoes-controversial-law-heaping-hostility-on-muslims-in-central-europe-70546|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016, a two-thirds majority of the Slovak parliament passed a new bill that would obstruct [[Islam]] and other religious organisations from becoming state-recognised religions by doubling the minimum followers threshold from 25,000 to 50,000; however, Slovakia's then-president [[Andrej Kiska]] vetoed the bill.<ref name="Hukelova"/> In 2010, there were an estimated 5,000 [[Muslim]]s in Slovakia representing less than 0.1% of the country's population.<ref>[http://www.cas.sk/clanok/176603/na-slovensku-je-5-tisic-moslimov-bude-v-nasej-krajine-mesita/ Na Slovensku je 5-tisíc moslimov: Bude v našej krajine mešita? | Nový Čas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022184023/https://www.cas.sk/clanok/176603/na-slovensku-je-5-tisic-moslimov-bude-v-nasej-krajine-mesita/ |date=22 October 2020 }}. Cas.sk (11 August 2010). Retrieved on 4 February 2017.</ref> Slovakia is the only member state of the European Union to not have any [[mosque]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pluska.sk/spravy/zo-zahranicia/slovensko-je-poslednou-krajinou-unie-kde-nie-je-mesita.html |title=Slovensko je poslednou krajinou únie, kde nie je mešita |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=15 November 2014 |website=Pluska |publisher=7 PLUS, s.r.o. |access-date=5 April 2014 |language=sk |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407074932/http://www.pluska.sk/spravy/zo-zahranicia/slovensko-je-poslednou-krajinou-unie-kde-nie-je-mesita.html |url-status=live }}</ref>