Muslims, Evangelicals and Atheists at the Pope's Visit to Barcelona: Interest in the Speech and Detachment From the Cost of the Trip

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Almost half of Barcelona’s population identifies with a religion. Of that 48.1% who confesses that they do believe, 79.8% declare themselves Catholic, even though they are not practicing. According to the data contained in the municipal services survey prepared by the city council in 2025, it is extrapolated that 38% of the residents of the Catalan capital are attached to Catholicism. In other words, Leon XIV arrives on Tuesday at a secularized …