Talk:Religion in Switzerland

Appenzell
Good job. What's the bit about Appenzell? I can only presume that this refers to the religiously motivated split in 1597 into Appenzell Innerrhoden (Catholic) and Appenzell Ausserrhoden (Protestant). But see (in 1930, some 14% of the population of AR were Catholic; but only about 4.5% in AI were Protestant). I haven't found any current figures. Does anyone have access to the Statistisches Lexikon? (Combining the 1,200 from with the 15,000 from, I arrive at about 8% Protestants in AI in 2006.)

See also Volkszählung 2000 for a source for the percentages given in the article. Lupo 15:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

The CIA report given as a source for these percentages does not give the numbers quoted in the article. Lupo 16:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Religious persecution in the 1870s
There are books that talk about a religious persecution of Catholics that occured during the 1870s period, at the end of the pontificate of Pius IX. It is sometimes described as the Swiss equivalent of the Kulturkampf. When you read Pius' encyclicals, he appears to indicate that the persecution was Masonic in nature. This could perhaps be mentioned in the article, along with appropriate sources of course. ADM (talk) 01:01, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Name
Regarding your edit. Please consider WP:GLOBAL perspective. The term "Catholic Church in Switzerland" doesn't primarly designate a specific, registred organisation in the Swiss state authorities. It designates the adherence of the Catholic Church in the territory and among the citizenship of Switzerland. Therefore, it might be due to indicate under what terminology the strict organisational representation is registred in the Swiss authourities, but that shouldn't override WP:Global, for title and in the text generally, right? Chicbyaccident (talk) 08:57, 23 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Either you are fundamentally misunderstanding your referred policy, or you refer to something totally different.
 * A. The policy WP:GLOBAL has nothing to do with content or article titles. It's about Global User Rights .
 * B. I, however, refer to such quite fundamental policies as WP:NOTE (nobody is questioning this), WP:Precision (Catholic Church would lead to a misunderstanding, at least in the Swiss context, since it is too general), and WP:DISAMB (the term Catholic Church leads to a disambiguation in the Swiss context, therefore it "must be disambiguated").
 * C. No policy strives for the rule that a article's title (and content) must refer to a real, registered organisation (besides, even the article does not claim that the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland is an organisation ... but read the whole article by yourself, first of all, and you shall learn to understand ;-), BUT to a WP:COMMONNAME, which is undoubtly satisfied. Again, you are inventing policies which are not existing. Otherwise God should be removed as soon as possible.
 * -- ZH8000 (talk) 12:49, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Bigger populations have the right (being equally human) to be presented first if they're of specific adherence (others not because are fragmented in unknown components)
You made that mistake because you claim that religion is the ultimate hypernym of any personal worldview. Wikipedia isn't Switzerland to present everything dictated by the Swiss state which vexillized (flag-depicted) a religious symbol. Mention their wrongdoings, don't support them.