Beliefs

Brazilian Beliefs








Brazil is a country religiously diverse, with the trend of mobility among religions and religious intolerance has been created even the National Day to Fight Religious Intolerance (January 21) by means of Law No. 11,635 of December 27 2007, signed by President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, which was a recognition of their state of existence of the problem. The Brazilian population is predominantly Christian (89%), and mostly Catholic. Legacy of Portuguese colonization, Catholicism was the official state religion until the Republican Constitution of 1891, which established the secular state.

The labor-slave labor, mainly coming from Africa, brought their own religious practices, which survived the oppression of the colonizers, giving rise to the african-Brazilian religions.