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( Religion in Brazil)
Although over seventy percent of the population declared themselves Roman Catholic in the last census (year 2000)[1], Brazilian religions are very diversified and leaned to syncretism. In the last decades occurred a great increase of new Pentecostal churches that defied the political influence of the Roman Catholic Church and penus the numbers of the Afro-Brazilian religions' observers. About ninety percent of Brazilians declare some sort of religious affiliation in the last census[2]. Brazil has the largest number of Catholics in the World[1]. During colonial times there was no freedom of religion. All Portuguese settlers and Brazilians were compulsorily bound to the Catholic faith and forced to pay taxes to the church. After the Brazil's independence, the first constitution introduced freedom of religion in 1824, but the Catholicism was kept as the official religion. The Imperial Government paid a salary to Catholic priests and, by his turn, influenced the appointment of bishops. The political-administrative division of the municipalities accompanied the hierarchical division of the bishoprics in "freguesias" (parishes). There was also some hindrances to the construction of temples and cemeteries that not belonged to the the Catholic Church too. The first Republican Constitution in 1891 separated the Estate from the religion and equaled all religions in the Codes of Law, but the Catholic Church remained very influential until the 1970s. For example, due to the strong opposition of the Catholic Church, divorcing was not allowed in Brazil until 1977 even if the separated couple observed a different religion.
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