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===Religion=== {{Main|Religion in El Salvador}} {{bar box | title = Religious background in El Salvador | titlebar = #DDD | left1 = Religion | right1 = Proportion | float = right | bars = {{bar per cent|[[Catholic]]|red|43.3}} {{bar per cent|[[Protestant]]|green|33.9}} {{bar per cent|None|blue|18.6}} {{bar per cent|Other|orange|3}} {{bar per cent|Agnostic/Atheist|yellow|1.2}} }} The majority of the population in El Salvador is [[Christians|Christian]]. [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] (43.3%) and [[Protestantism|Protestants]] (33.9%) are the two major religious groups in the country, with the Catholic Church the largest denomination.<ref name="IRFR2012">{{cite web |title=International Religious Freedom Report for 2021 |url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-report-on-international-religious-freedom/el-salvador/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216144533/https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-report-on-international-religious-freedom/el-salvador/ |archive-date=16 February 2024 |access-date=8 May 2024 |publisher=U.S. State Department}}</ref> Those not affiliated with any religious group amount to 18.6% of the population.<ref name=IRFR2012/> The remaining is that of 3% [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], [[Hare Krishnas]], [[Islam in El Salvador|Muslims]], [[Jews]], [[Buddhists]], [[Latter-day Saints]], and those adhering to indigenous religious beliefs, and 1.2% being made up of those who identify as agnostic or atheist.<ref name=IRFR2012/> The number of evangelicals in the country is growing rapidly.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Offutt |first1=Stephen |title=New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa |date=23 February 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-43521-6}}</ref> [[Γscar Romero]], the first Salvadoran saint, was canonized by [[Pope Francis]] on 14 October 2018.
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