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.