Irreligion in Guatemala

The irreligion in Guatemala consists lesser percentage who identify as atheist, agnostic, secular, skeptical and Secular humanist, and higher percentage of non-religious people but they yes believe in God.

The Article 36 of the Political Constitution of Guatemala states that everyone has the right to practice their religion or belief, in public and in private (in this Act include Protestants, practitioners of Mayan beliefs and with those who do not practice no religion).^[1] Since 1882 the country has no official religion, this was approved in the government of Justo Rufino Barrios. In the second half of the nineteenth century several liberal governments like Justo Rufino Barrios and others who opposed the Catholic clergy, with the victory of these there was nearly a century of restriction of the Catholic clergy, this made a possible growth of Protestantism and irreligion.

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See also

• Irreligion
• Secularism
• Atheism
• Agnosticism
• Skepticism

References

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