By comparison, just 12% of Czechs say they would be willing to accept Muslims as members of their family, and around half (51%) say the same about Jews. Nearly half of Slovaks (47%) say they would be willing to accept Muslims as members of their family, and nearly three-in-four (73%) say the same about Jews.
Slovaks are also more accepting of religious minorities than Czechs. And Slovaks are more likely to say religion in very important in their lives (23% vs. 9% of Czechs) and attend religious services at least monthly (31% vs. For instance, there is at least a 20-percentage-point difference between the two nations in the shares who say they pray daily (31% of Slovaks vs. In addition to being predominantly Catholic, Slovaks also are consistently more religiously observant than Czechs. Around half that many (21%) identify as Catholic in the Czech Republic today. In a survey conducted in 1991 by the Times Mirror Center for the People & Press, Pew Research Center’s predecessor organization, 44% of Czech speakers in Czechoslovakia identified as Catholic. The Czech Republic’s largely secular religious landscape is a result of dramatic declines over time in the share of adults who identify as Catholic.
In addition, far more people in Slovakia than in the Czech Republic say they believe in God (69% and 29%, respectively). While Slovakia is majority Catholic (63%), around seven-in-ten Czechs (72%) are religiously unaffiliated – the highest share of unaffiliated adults in 34 European countries surveyed by the Center.
1, 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, an event sometimes called the “ Velvet Divorce.” But despite having been one nation for roughly 75 years, the two countries have very different religious profiles, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. Altar boys prepare for Sunday Mass at a Catholic church in Strba, Slovakia.
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