Religion in the Philippines is marked by a majority of people being adherents of the Christian

faith.At least 92% of the population is Christian; about 81% belong to the Roman Catholic Church
while about 11% belong to Protestant, Restorationist and Independent Catholic denominations,
such as Iglesia Filipina Independiente, Iglesia ni Cristo, Seventh-day Adventist Church, United
Church of Christ in the Philippines and Evangelicals. Officially, the Philippines is a secular nation,
with the Constitution guaranteeing separation of church and state, and requiring the government to
respect all religious beliefs equally.

According to national religious surveys, about 5.6% of the population of the Philippines is
Muslim, making Islam the second largest religion in the country. However, A 2012 estimate by the
National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) stated that there were 10.7 million Muslims,
or approximately 11 percent of the total population. Most Muslims live in parts of Mindanao,
Palawan, and the Sulu Archipelago – an area known as Bangsamoro or the Moro region. Some
have migrated into urban and rural areas in different parts of the country. Most Muslim Filipinos
practice Sunni Islam according to the Shafi'i school. There are some Ahmadiyya Muslims in the
country.

Philippine traditional religions are still practiced by an estimated 2% of the population, made up of
many indigenous peoples, tribal groups, and people who have reverted into traditional religions
from Catholic/Christian or Islamic religions. These religions are often syncretized with
Christianity and Islam. Animism, folk religion, and shamanism remain present as undercurrents of
mainstream religion, through the albularyo, the babaylan, and the manghihilot. Buddhism is
practiced by 2% of the populations by the Japanese-Filipino community, and together with Taoism
and Chinese folk religion is also dominant in Chinese communities. There are smaller number of
followers of Sikhs, Hinduism, and Judaism, and Baha'i. More than 10% of the population is non-
religious, with the percentage of non-religious people overlapping with various faiths, as the vast
majority of the non-religious select a religion in the Census for nominal purposes.

According to the 2010 census, Evangelicals comprised 2% of the population, however 2010
surveys and data such Joshua Project and Operation World estimated the evangelical population to
be around 11–13% of the population. It is particularly strong among American and Korean
communities, Northern Luzon especially in Cordillera Administrative Region, Southern Mindanao
and many other tribal groups in the Philippines. Protestants both mainline and evangelical have
gained significant annual growth rate up to 10% since 1910 to 2015.