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 ==Historical Background==
-<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Romania", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania, accessed 1 April 2020. </ref><ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Romania", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Romania, accessed 1 April 2020. </ref><br>
+Romania is a secular state, and it has no state religion. Romania is the most religious out of 34 European countries.[1] and a majority of the country's citizens are Christian. The Romanian state officially recognizes 18 religions and denominations.[2] 81.04% of the country's stable population identified as part of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the 2011 census (see also: History of Christianity in Romania). Other Christian denominations include the Catholic Church (both Latin Catholicism (4.33%) and Greek Catholicism (0.75%–3.3%), Calvinism (2.99%), and Pentecostal denominations (1.80%). This amounts to approximately 92% of the population identifying as Christian.
+<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Romania", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Romania, accessed 1 April 2020. </ref><br>
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