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It is Catholic by a wide margin.

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Predominantly a Christian culture with adoptions from Voodoo traditions. But there are also large populations of Muslims and even Hindus in South America.

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Eighty-four percent of the people in that region practice Roman Catholicism. The remaining sixteen percent: - Seven percent are Protestant - Two percent are other Christians - Four percent are nonreligious - Three percent belong to other religions. **Source: Rubenstein, James. An Introduction to Humman Geography. 8. Upper Saddle River: MacMillian Publishing Comp., 1994.

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The main religion of Central America is Catholicism.

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