page_title: Alterswil
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Alterswil / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Römisch-katholische Kirche Alterswil, Kanton Freiburg, Schweiz
context_page_description: Alterswil is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
context_section_description: From the 2000 census, 1,352 or 71.9% were Roman Catholic, while 310 or 16.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.  Of the rest of the population, there were 13 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.69% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.11% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 12 individuals (or about 0.64% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There were 75 (or about 3.99% of the population) who were Islamic.  There was 1 person who was Buddhist and 2 individuals who belonged to another church.  43 (or about 2.29% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 77 individuals (or about 4.09% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: Church in Alterswil
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