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INDIGENOUS FOLK RELIGIONS

The Philippines is home to a variety of native religions that belong to the country’s different ethnic groups. A common theme amongst these native religions is animism – the belief that spirits of Nature, ancestors, and deities inhabit creatures and the environment. Most of these religions

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