Dominate religion in Puerto Rio

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The dominant religion in Puerto Rico is Christian. It counts up for 97%!o(MISSING)f the religion in the island, out of that 97%!a(MISSING)bout 1,650,000 adherents are Catholic. the term adherents means the following: someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas. The Catholic has been the majority religion with Puerto Ricans for years. This is due to Puerto Rico having the first dioceses in the Americas. Meaning that Puerto Rico is a district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church. However, even though the Christian religion is the largest and dominating over all of the other religions, the second largest is non-religious group. which accounts for 1.98%!o(MISSING)f the population in Puerto Rico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Puerto_Rico

The Christianity religion differs from the other top two world religions by, in the Christian religion the adherents believe in God and Jesus, and how to live by the life of Jesus following the New and Old Testaments. In the other two major religions, which are Islam and Buddhism, the Islam religion is based off the teachings of Muhammad, who is also known as Prophet. Muhammad believed God gave him a task in reforming religion. The followers of Muhammad are know as Muslims, which they call Muhammad prophet of Allah, besides Allah there is no other God. The Islam faith has five primary duties, profession of faith, prayer performed five times a day, almsgiving to the poor, fasting during daylight hours in the month of Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a Muslim’s lifetime. On the other hand, the Buddhist religion is based of the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who was also know as Buddha. Today Buddhism is divided into two major branches, Theravada and Mahayana. He preached peace and wanted to find the solution to the struggles in life. What makes Christianity unique is that it has a giant bases for other major religions that believe in God. They have little differences between the religions, but have all a thing in common. Which is that all the followers believe in God and Jesus. http://massivedynamic.hubpages.com/hub/The-5-Major-Religions-of-the-World

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