Religious Affiliation
The predominant religion of the Luxembourg population is Roman Catholic, with Protestant, Anglican, Jewish and Muslim minorities. According to a 1979 law, the government forbids collection of data on religious practices, but over 90% is estimated to be baptized Catholic (the Virgin Mary is the Patroness of the city of Luxembourg).
The Lutheran and Calvinist Churches are the largest Protestant denominations. Muslims are estimated to number approximately 6.000 persons, including 1.500 refugees from Montenegro; Orthodox (Albanian,Greek, Serbian, Russian, and Roman) adherents are estimated to number approximately 5.000 persons: and there are approximately 1.000 Jews. Freedom of religion is provided by the Luxembourg Constitution.
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“If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather than achievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”
—Phyllis Rose (b. 1942)