Christanity
Roman Catholic
Language: About half of South America (by surface), and therefore about half of Latin America, is Brazil, where they speak Portuguese. In most of the remainder of Latin America, Spanish is spoken. Religion: The main religion is Christianity. The Catholic Church traditionally had a great influence, but people are gradually changing over to various Protestant churches.
Indifference
They didn't have a choice either you were the religion that they wanted you t be or you were held as prisoner ,executed ,or tortured till you died. the Spanish inquisition was started by king Ferdinand and queen Isabella they wanted to make sure that no other religion was being practiced besides Christianity. if you were accused of heresy (the practice of another religion) you were sentenced to die. more than two thirds of the population was killed during either the Spanish inquisition or the Portuguese inquisitions.
Hinduism
The main religion practiced by the people in India is Hinduism.
Catholic. Priests traveled with them to give the prayers for the crews and to convert people who weren't Catholic.
Most Portuguese people are Roman Catholics, 84% of the population.
The Portuguese and the Spanish
India
Most of the people in Venice are Catholic.
Portuguese and Spanish are both Romance languages with similar grammar and vocabulary. They share about 89% lexical similarity, meaning that 89% of the words in Portuguese have a similar counterpart in Spanish.