The Catholic Travel Logue

Peru’s main religion is Roman Catholic, as in many other Latin American countries. It is the official religion and state interference in state affairs and the daily application in the last 400 years. Most activities of the Church and clergy in and around Lima, which is the capital of the state centered.

Most of the official duties of the State in the rites of the church included. The inauguration of President begins with Mass at the cathedral by the events of Holy Week and celebrate the great day of Peruvian saints and festivals such as Santa Rosa de Lima.

Historically, the policy of the Church should be very conservative and hand high in the treatment of indigenous Quechua and Aymara people. Only in the fifties, this policy essentially very foreign priests, who changed the clergy. This has led to the materialization of a sharply populist theme activist and social between several members of the clergy, with many priests and religious have tried to lend a hand to the poor.

As the decision of the dominant religion on a group of people who maintain their strong cultural traditions, native, is the Roman Catholic Church complex mixed with the characteristics of the Inca thought, and after. The natives hold animistic notions about spirits and forces that are present in natural environments. The Incas and the cult of the Andes) INTI (Sun, the Pachamama (Mother Earth), and other gods. When converting people to Catholicism, the Spaniards have followed a deliberate tactic of syncretism, where they replaced the saints Christians for the local deities and the location of the temple, because it often involves the recruitment of Churches.

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Cuba is a country very unique. Their culture is, of all people who came during the years of colonization: the Chinese, Spaniards and Africans enriched. Here, the Yoruba religion practiced wide study of syncretism and its development over the centuries has held hourly. You should consider whether you are traveling to Cuba to spend your vacation time and to know that you can easily plan all aspects of the underlying syncretic the daily lives of Cubans regard.

Into the West Coast of Africa, the territory of Nigeria, is the holy city of Ife, the cradle of the world for the Africans, the birthplace of the religion, their religion, because of the infamous slave trade moved to the New World and have been here, where slave, with a body liturgical SA alone, without depending on something or maintain a relationship with the subordinate place of origin, the holy city of Ife.

The rule of OCHA in Cuba is not to the Spiritual Guide, or Obbas Government of the African continent, because it is a very Creole, sits in the belief from the African mainland. It does not depend on the patterns of high religious Obbas Nigeria and Dahomey. As a rule of OCHA, each house of the church is the basis for an individual agreement with the teachings of his ancestors. The basics of Santeria are rooted in the Catholic Church. In Cuba, by the mid-19th Century, a reorganization of Santeria for the first time we know, has led to the unification of the sects specific Orishas to the earth by black slaves from Africa, enforced from regions in which various orishas.

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