The latest census conducted in Slovakia, in 2021, reported an increase in the proportion of the population with no religious affiliation, almost a quarter of the population in 2021.
The census, conducted by the Slovak statistics office, also showed that 68.5% of the total population belonged to one of the Christian churches. 3 million Slovaks indicated they belonged to the Roman Catholic denomination, which was 56% of the population in 2021. However, this number reflected an overall decrease by 6% as compared with the 2011 census. The second biggest portion of the population, almost 290 thousand, is comprised of people who belong to the Evangelical Church of the Ausburg Confession, while the third most popular denomination is the so-called Greek Catholic denomination—perhaps more widely known as Byzantine Catholic—with 220 thousand followers in 2021.
While foreigners make up 1.1% of the population of Slovakia, the number of foreign Christians was only 0.3%. Those foreigners in Slovakia who self-identified as Christian were most commonly citizens of Poland, Ukraine, and Serbia.
On Good Friday, Martina Greňová Šimkovičová talked to Ben Kosnáč, a Roman Catholic priest based in Bratislava, about his 19 years of experience celebrating Easter in the US. He explains that there are some common elements as well as some regional customs to consider when comparing the way this holiday is celebrated in Detroit with how it is celebrated in Bratislava. Nevertheless, the key belief uniting Christians in different parts of the world, no matter their denomination, is the same: humanity can be saved by God’s son, Jesus.
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