What religions are practiced in Mexico?

The Anglican Communion is represented by the Anglican Church of Mexico. Protestantism is strongest where the Catholic Church and the Mexican state have little presence. Protestantism is also on the rise as it offers a less legalistic and hierarchical version of Christianity.

There are some Mexicans practicing Eastern Orthodoxy in Mexico, mainly foreign-born people. There are also a number of Seventh-day Adventists (488,946 people). The 2000 national census counted more than one million Jehovah's Witnesses.

The first LDS missionaries in Mexico arrived in June 29, 19930 (although the original Mormons came to Mexico in the 1840s in Utah, when it was still a Mexican territory). In 1885, 400 Mormon colonists moved to Mexico. The LDS Church claims over a million members in Mexico.

June 29, 1993, the Mexican government formally registered the LDS Church. This allowed the church to own property in Mexico. As of year-end 2006, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) reported 1,082,427 members, 207 stakes, 1,434 wards, 495 branches, and 12 temples in Mexico.

La Luz del Mundo is a Charismatic Christian denomination with international headquarters in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Its flagship church in Guadalajara is said to be the largest non-Catholic house of worship in Latin Americacitation needed. Islam is mainly practiced by members of the Arab, Turkish, and other expatriate communities, though there is a very small number of the indigenous population in Chiapas that practices Islam.

The presence of Jews in Mexico dates back to 1521, when Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs, accompanied by several Conversos. According to the last national census by the INEGI, there are now more than 45,000 Mexican Jews, the near totality of which (around 95%) live in the Greater Mexico City area. Approximately 108,701 Buddhists are counted in Mexico.

Also one of six Tibet Houses in the world - Casa Tibet México - is located in Mexico City. It is used by the Dalai Lama and other leaders of Tibetan Buddhism to preserve and share Tibetan culture and spirituality. Alejandro Jodorowsky has stated that he discovered Zen Buddhism in the 1960s while in Mexico.

2021 There are also two institutions from Theravada Buddhism tradition, the Theravada Buddhist Monastery 4 and the Vipassana House of Meditation. 5 There are at least 30 Buddhist groups in Mexico. Although the demographics of atheism and irreligion in Mexico is hard to measure due to the fact that many atheists are officially counted as Catholic, almost three million people in the 2000 National Census reported having no religion.

11 Recent surveys have shown that only around 3% of Catholics attend church daily and 44% attend church at least once a week,22 and, according to INEGI, the number of atheists grows annually by 5.2%, while the number of Catholics grows by 1.7%. Dow, James W. "The Expansion of Protestantism in Mexico: An Anthropological View."

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