Culture

Ireland has a Christian constitution; however, the state is forbidden from endowing any particular religion. Approximately 86.8% of the population are Roman Catholic and the country has one of the highest rates of regular and weekly church attendance in the Western World. However, there has been a major decline in this attendance among Irish Catholics in the course of the past 30 years.

The Netherlands had a lot of famous and successful people. First, we mention Dutch painters who are known all over the world. Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt van Rijn are the most considerable. You probably know some of their artworks (Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee painted by Rembrandt or Still life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers created by Van Gogh). In the Dutch Golden age in 17th century we can find notable architects, such as Jacob van Campen. His best known works are The Royal Palace in Amsterdam and The Paleis Noordeinde.

The Czech Republic, along with Estonia, has one of the most non-religious populations in the European Union. According to the 2001 census, 59% of the people are either atheists, non-believers or believers who are not members of any particular denomination.

Famous Slovenians

Primož Trubar (1508-1586)

Primož Trubar was the leader of the Protestant movement in Slovenia and the founder of Slovenian theology.

Religion

Citizens of Finland are very religious – up to 84,1% of the population endorse one the churches: 81,8% Lutheran, 1,1% orthodox and 1,2% Catholics (or other allowed and statistically observed churches). 15,9% of the population is without religion.

Source: Statistics Finland