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class="mw-redirect" title="Agnostic">agnostics</a> are not officially counted in the census of the country, although the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Statistics_Authority" title="Philippine Statistics Authority">Philippine Statistics Authority</a> in 2020 reported that 43,931 Filipinos (or 0.04043% of the total Philippine population) have no <a href="/wiki/Religious_affiliation" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious affiliation">religious affiliation</a> or have answered "none".<sup id="cite_ref-PSAGovPH-2020Census-Religion_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PSAGovPH-2020Census-Religion-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, an undated study by the Dentsu Communication Institute in Japan claimed that around 11 million or 11% of Filipinos are irreligious.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2011, the non-religious increasingly organized themselves, especially among the youth in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a stigma attached to being an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a> in the Philippines, and this necessitates many Filipino atheists to communicate with each other via the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, for example via the Philippine Atheism, Agnosticism and Secularism, Inc. formerly known as <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Atheists_and_Agnostics_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society">Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-abs_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abs-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading 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One in eleven Filipino Catholics consider leaving the Church, only 37% attend church every week, and only 29% consider themselves strongly religious.<sup id="cite_ref-French_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-French-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Overall, anti-Catholic sentiment is a growing trend in the Philippines,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> with former president <a href="/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte" title="Rodrigo Duterte">Rodrigo Duterte</a> being an outspoken critic of the church for its <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases" title="Catholic Church sexual abuse cases">sex scandals</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and allegations of corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to both Catholics and Atheists, belief in the Catholic Church is linked to poverty more than it is religious conviction, many go to Church out of desperation and need for hope, and some atheists, such as Miss. M, founder of HAPI, believe that starting secular outreach institutions will help Filipinos shed reliance on the Church and put their future in their own hands. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When I asked some of the worshippers there why religion is so important to them, poverty was a common answer</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Michael French</cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Its very important because we are very poor, so that's the only thing we cling on to, the hope, every time we suffer, we all say, 'That's okay because it's the will of God.'</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Antonia Deligero<sup id="cite_ref-French_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-French-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>My mother would go to church to ask for food and clothing and money, most Filipinos think that God provides. It will give a lot of people common sense when we let them know that there really is no God.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Marissa Torres Langseth (Miss. M)<sup id="cite_ref-French_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-French-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Persecution_and_discrimination">Persecution and discrimination</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Irreligion_in_the_Philippines&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Persecution and discrimination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Filipino atheists are often harassed for their disbelief, and according to one atheist it's "how Filipinos think. They view atheists as <a href="/wiki/Satanist" class="mw-redirect" title="Satanist">Satanists</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-French_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-French-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organizations">Organizations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Irreligion_in_the_Philippines&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Humanist Alliance Philippines, International <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://hapihumanist.org">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Atheism,_Agnosticism,_and_Secularism_Inc." title="Philippine Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secularism Inc.">Philippine Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secularism Inc.</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://patasinc.org">[2]</a></li> <li>Filipino Freethinkers <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://filipinofreethinkers.org">[3]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prominent_figures">Prominent figures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Irreligion_in_the_Philippines&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Prominent figures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Red Tani<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Marissa Torres Langseth</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philippine_religious_distribution">Philippine religious distribution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_Philippines" title="Catholic Church in the Philippines">Roman Catholic</a><sup id="cite_ref-2020CatholicCharismatic_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CatholicCharismatic-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td>85,645,362 </td> <td>78.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_the_Philippines" title="Islam in the Philippines">Islam</a> </th> <td>6,981,710 </td> <td>6.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo" title="Iglesia ni Cristo">Iglesia ni Cristo</a> </th> <td>2,806,524 </td> <td>2.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Independent_Church" title="Philippine Independent Church">Philippine Independent Church</a> </th> <td>1,458,992 </td> <td>1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh-day Adventist">Seventh-day Adventist</a> </th> <td>862,725 </td> <td>0.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Baptist_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist Church">Bible Baptist Church</a> </th> <td>540,364 </td> <td>0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ_in_the_Philippines" title="United Church of Christ in the Philippines">United Church of Christ in the Philippines</a> </th> <td>470,792 </td> <td>0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a> </th> <td>457,245 </td> <td>0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Church of Christ </th> <td>429,921 </td> <td>0.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Other religious affiliations </th> <td>8,954,291 </td> <td>8.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>None</i> </th> <td>43,931 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><i>Not reported</i> </th> <td>15,186 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:700; border-top-style:double;"> <th scope="row" style="font-weight:700;">Total 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