Religion
From the 2000 census, 20,892 or 33.7% were Roman Catholic, while 20,233 or 32.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 585 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.94% of the population), there were 73 individuals (or about 0.12% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 2,070 individuals (or about 3.34% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 243 individuals (or about 0.39% of the population) who were Jewish, and 1,589 (or about 2.56% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 175 individuals who were Buddhist, 178 individuals who were Hindu and 100 individuals who belonged to another church. 11,875 (or about 19.16% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 3,961 individuals (or about 6.39% of the population) did not answer the question.
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