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Do not fill this in! ===Religion=== {{Main|Religion in Haiti}} {{Pie chart |thumb = right |caption = Religion in Haiti according to the [[Pew Research Center]] (2010)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/haiti#/?affiliations_religion_id=11&affiliations_year=2010®ion_name=All%20Countries+Countries&restrictions_year=2015|title=Religions in Haiti – PEW-GRF|website=globalreligiousfutures.org|access-date=25 February 2018|archive-date=29 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929181606/http://www.globalreligiousfutures.org/countries/haiti#/?affiliations_religion_id=11&affiliations_year=2010®ion_name=All%20Countries+Countries&restrictions_year=2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> |label1 = Catholicism |value1 = 56.8 |color1 = purple |label2 = Protestantism |value2 = 29.6 |color2 = Blue |label3 = Unaffiliated |value3 = 10.6 |color3 = gray |label4 = Other |value4 = 3 |color4 = Red }} The 2018 [[CIA World Factbook]] reported that 55% of Haitians were [[Roman Catholicism in Haiti|Catholics]] and 29% were [[Protestantism in Haiti|Protestants]] (Baptist 15.4%, Pentecostal 7.9%, [[Seventh-day Adventist]] 3%, Methodist 1.5%, other 0.7%). Other sources put the Protestant population higher, suggesting that it might have formed one-third of the population in 2001.<ref name="ReyStepick2013">{{cite book|last1=Rey|first1=Terry|last2=Stepick|first2=Alex|title=Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in Miami|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40SIdXeUEhUC&pg=PA6|year=2013|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-2077-1|page=6|quote=With no indications of any subsequent decline in Protestant affiliation either in Port-au-Prince or the countryside, one could reasonably estimate that today Haiti is already more than one-third Protestant}}</ref> Like other countries in Latin America, Haiti has witnessed a general Protestant expansion, which is largely [[Evangelical Protestant|Evangelical]] and [[Pentecostal]] in nature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2014/november/sorry-pope-francis-protestants-catholics-latin-america-pew.html|title=Sorry, Pope Francis: Protestants Are Converting Catholics Across Latin America|first=Morgan|last=Lee|website=News & Reporting|date=13 November 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2014/11/13/religion-in-latin-america/|title=Religion in Latin America|date=13 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2006/10/05/overview-pentecostalism-in-latin-america/|title=Overview: Pentecostalism in Latin America|date=5 October 2006}}</ref> Haitian [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] [[Chibly Langlois]] is president of the National Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church. [[Haitian vodou|Vodou]], a religion with West African roots similar to those of [[Cuba]] and [[Brazil]], is formally practiced by 2.1% of the population; however, it is estimated that 50-80% of Haitians incorporate some elements of Vodou belief or practices into their religion, particularly with Catholicism. This reflect Vodou's colonial origins, when enslaved persons were obliged to disguise their traditional [[loa]] (''lwa''), or spirits, as [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] saints, as part of a process called [[syncretism]]. As such, it is difficult to estimate the number of Vodouists in Haiti,<ref>{{cite book | last = Blier |first = Suzanne Preston |editor-first = Cosentino |editor-last = Donald J. |title = Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou | publisher = Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History |year = 1995 |pages = 61–87 |chapter = Vodun: West African Roots of Vodou |isbn = 978-0-930741-47-1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/object/relifp-46 |chapter=The Madonna of 115th St. Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism |last=McAlister |first= Elizabeth |editor1-first=S. |editor1-last=Warner |title=Gatherings in Diaspora |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Temple Univ. Press |isbn=978-1-56639-614-1 |year=1998 }}</ref> especially given the legacy of historic persecution and misrepresentation in popular media and culture, as well as modern stigmatization among segments of the growing Protestant population. Nonetheless, Vodou was officially recognized by the Haitian government in 2003.<ref name="CIA World Factbook – Haiti" /> Reflecting the ubiquity of Vodou culture and beliefs, while many Catholics and Protestants in Haiti denounce Vodou as ''[[Theistic Satanism|devil worship]]'', they do not deny the power or existence of its spirits; rather, they are regarded as "[[evil]]" and "[[Satanism|satanic]]" adversaries that require intervention through [[Christian prayer]]. Protestants view Catholic veneration of saints as [[idolatry|idol worship]], and some Protestants would often destroy statues and other Catholic paraphernalia.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UT0nAAAAQBAJ |title=Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith Haitian Religion in Miami |editor=Rey, Terry |editor2=Stepick, Alex |page=197 |year=2013 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=9780814777084 |access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref> Minority religions in Haiti include [[Islam in Haiti|Islam]], [[Bahá'í Faith in Haiti|Bahá'í Faith]], [[History of the Jews in Haiti|Judaism]], and [[Buddhism]].<ref name="CIA_20110303" /> 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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