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Do not fill this in! ===Religion=== {{Main|Religion in Ecuador}} {{bar box |title=Religion in Ecuador (2014)<ref name="PewResearch">{{cite web|title=Religion in Latin America: Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region|url=http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/11/Religion-in-Latin-America-11-12-PM-full-PDF.pdf|access-date=17 December 2019|language=en|date=November 2014|archive-date=21 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021065936/http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/11/Religion-in-Latin-America-11-12-PM-full-PDF.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> |titlebar=#ddd |left1=Religion |right1=percent |float=left |bars= {{bar percent|[[Catholic Church|Catholic]]|purple|79}} {{bar percent|[[Protestant]]|blue|13}} {{bar percent|[[Irreligion|Irreligious]]|Red|5}} {{bar percent|Other|Green|3}} }} 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 cat贸lico] {{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 cat贸lico, seg煤n 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.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} [[File:La Compa帽铆a, Quito - 6.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Church of La Compa帽铆a, 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 [[Bah谩始铆 Faith|Bah谩始铆]]. According to their own 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 own sources, in 2017 there were 92,752 [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] in the country.<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 mayority 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 3000 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 Jud铆a 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 Poblaci贸n total 11,700,000 ~ Poblaci贸n jud铆a 1000]. Congreso Jud铆o</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). 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