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From lolo soetoro:

According to friends and neighbors, Soetoro was free thinking and not a devout Muslim. He died of a liver ailment in Jakarta in 1987 at age 52,

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According to friends and neighbors, Soetoro was much more a free spirit than a devout Muslim. Obama describe his stepfather as following "a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths." Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers, a few neighbors said - though Lolo was usually too busy working to attend prayers and it was rare for Obama to join him.

Lolo Soetoro enrolled Obama into a Roman Catholic School in Indonesia, and identified Obama's religion as "Islam." At the time, the school most likely registered children based on the religion of their fathers, according to Obama's 1st grade teacher, who indicated that Obama prayed at the school in the Catholic way, as did all of the students at the school.

Soetoro died of a liver ailment in Jakarta in 1987 at age 52,