Religion in Mexico

The Mexican Constitution of 1917 imposed limitations on the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and sometimes codified state intrusion into religious matters.

The government does not provide financial contributions to the religious institutions, nor does the Roman Catholic Church participate in public education.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Mexican liberals curtailed the exclusive standing of the church, and Protestant missionaries, mainly from the United States, legally evangelized in Mexico.

[citation needed] Evangelical Protestant churches have expanded their reach significantly from the late twentieth century.

In the Yucatán Peninsula, some Mayan people still practice the traditional beliefs of their ancestors, without being syncretized with Christianity.

Urban Catholics are secularizated, on religious practice and beliefs, the middle and high urban class population are spiritually aphatic, except for some beliefs like zodiac signs, and generally the believing of Virgin Mary (see Lady of Guadalupe) is more rooted than the abrahamic God.

[15] But in some recent surveys like Latinobarometro, Protestantism in the whole country has dropped from nearly 10% to less than 5%, in counterpart, between 2010 and 2020, the Census recorder an increase from 8% to 11%, ARDA estimated 10.7% in 2015.

[citation needed] The Orthodox Church in America has a diocese in Mexico established through mass conversions, as well as through immigration and missionary activity.

[20] 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 America[citation needed].

[23][24] The presence of Jews in Mexico dates back to 1521, when Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs, accompanied by several Conversos.

[citation needed] According to the last national census by the INEGI, there are now more than 67,000 Mexican Jews, roughly 95% of whom live in the Greater Mexico City area.

[26] Following further pioneers moving there and making contacts the first Mexican to join the religion was in 1937, followed quickly by the first Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly of all Latin America being elected in 1938.

[27][28] The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated almost 38,000 Bahá'ís in 2005.

There is a big presence of recently arrived Indians working for Tata Consultancy Services in Guadalajara, Querétaro and Mexico City.

It's important to specify that irreligion and atheism in Mexico is complex to measure because many Catholics and part of Protestants leads a secular life patterns, and some religious studies with a particular purpose can reports differents percent of unaffiliated people, the National Census in 2010 reported 4.7% having no religion.

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of St. John of the Lakes in Jalisco is one of the most visited pilgrimage shrines in Mexico . [ 2 ]
The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral .
Boat approaching the Sanctuary of the Broken Christ, Aguascalientes
The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the most important pilgrimage sites of Christianity.
The Catedral de San Ildefonso in Mérida, Yucatán is the oldest cathedral on the mainland Americas .
A service at the Catedral Ortodoxa de San Jorge in Colonia Roma , Mexico City. Part of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch , it is under the auspices of Archbishop Antonio Chedraoui ( es ).
LDS Temple in Mexico City
LDS Mexico City Mexico Temple
Mezquita Soraya , the first mosque in Mexico
The interior of the Sinagoga Histórica Justo Sierra 71 located in the Historic Center of Mexico City .
A Tibetan Buddhist ritual in Valle de Bravo
Hare Krishna musicians in Mexico City
It is said that there were 365 churches at one point in Cholula. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] One for every day of the year. Many still exists are some of them are the most spectacular in all of Mexico.