Religion
From the 2000 census, 76,732 or 38.3% were Roman Catholic, while 58,655 or 29.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 4,401 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.20% of the population), there were 138 individuals (or about 0.07% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 4,043 individuals (or about 2.02% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 1,257 individuals (or about 0.63% of the population) who were Jewish, and 10,973 (or about 5.47% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 667 individuals who were Buddhist, 1,063 individuals who were Hindu and 489 individuals who belonged to another church. 30,469 (or about 15.20% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 11,610 individuals (or about 5.79% of the population) did not answer the question.
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