page_title: Religion in Colombia
section_title: Other religious affiliations
hierarchical_section_title: Religion in Colombia / Other religious affiliations
caption_attribution_description: English: The Bogotá Colombia Temple.
context_page_description: Religion in Colombia is dominated by various forms of Christianity and is an expression of the different cultural heritages in the Colombian culture including the Spanish colonization, the Native Amerindian and the Afro-Colombian, among others.
context_section_description: Various denominations have their own statistics:
  Seventh-day Adventist Church: 270,256 members as of June 30, 2017
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 193,350 members (2016)
  Jehovah's Witnesses: about 165,089 members (2015)
  Bahá'í Faith: about 68,000 (2005)
  Judaism: between 5,000 and 10,000 members
  Buddhism: approximately 9,000
  Although the government does not keep official statistics on religious affiliation, a 2010 limited survey found 
  70.0% Catholic
  0.9% Charismatic Catholic
  14.4% Evangelical Christian
  1.6% Pentecostal
  0.3% Charismatic Evangelicals
  0.4% Protestant
  2.5% Agnostic
  2.2% Atheist
  3.5% Theistic but no religion
  1.3% Jehovah's Witnesses
  0.5% Adventist
  0.1% Muslim
  2.2% no response
  As of 2013, there seems to be no social controversy or problem arising from religious conflict. Religious discrimination is prohibited by the constitution and there is no official religion; however, the state is also explicitly not supposed to be indifferent to religious sentiments and the Catholic church has a special status. All cities and towns in Colombia have a church, but there are also some temples, mosques and synagogues in the largest cities.
  
  A Colombian-grown Taoist movement has spread significantly in recent years. In the 2000s, temples and congregations were target of a paramilitary repression whose motivations are still unclear. Entire Taoist communities were massacred and leaders kidnapped. 
   In 2008 Taoist communities organised and participated to various peaceful protests in some cities of Colombia.
caption: Bogotá Latter-Day Saints Temple
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