{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.religion-in-italy","code":"thing-q970825","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q970825/","name":"religion in Italy","alternateNames":["Christianity in Italy","Hinduism in Italy","Bahá'í Faith in Italy","Buddhism in Italy","religion in Rome","Jehovah's Witnesses in Italy","Protestantism in Italy","Eastern Orthodoxy in Italy","The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The religious landscape of Italy, where Christianity, predominantly Roman Catholicism, is the majority faith and Vatican City lies within Rome, the country s capital, with relations between the Italian state and the Catholic Church governed by the Lateran Pacts of 1929 revised in 1984; minority communities include Protestants such as Waldensians, Orthodox Christians largely from immigration, Jehovah s Witnesses, one of the largest minority groups, Muslims, Jews with a presence since antiquity, Buddhists and Hindus, whose bodies can gain state agreements called intese, and the Baha i Faith, while secularisation and declining church attendance are reported. Survey figures vary by source and should be checked against current sources.","purpose":"Let an agent explain religion in Italy, relay demographics, church-state relations, minority communities and trends from census, survey and religious studies sources with figures attributed, describe the named communities and Rome, and distinguish religion in Italy from the Holy See as a sovereign entity, Vatican City, Catholicism globally and Italian regional folk traditions.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Catholic majority","Vatican presence","State agreements with minorities","Secularisation trends"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"Religion in Italy.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is the religious landscape of Italy, and how does it differ from the Holy See, Vatican City, global Catholicism and folk traditions?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about statistics, law, a specific community or visiting religious sites?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"communities","name":"Communities","description":"Named communities.","findings":[{"id":"communities-finding","name":"Communities","description":"Communities.","questions":[{"text":"What are the Christian, Hindu, Baha i, Buddhist and Jehovah s Witness communities in Italy, and religion in Rome?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific community?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"law","name":"Law","description":"Church and state.","layers":[{"id":"lateran","name":"Lateran Pacts","description":"Lateran Pacts.","findings":[{"id":"lateran-finding","name":"Lateran Pacts","description":"Lateran Pacts.","questions":[{"text":"What did the Lateran Pacts and the 1984 revision establish?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"intese","name":"Intese","description":"Agreements with minorities.","findings":[{"id":"intese-finding","name":"Intese","description":"Intese.","questions":[{"text":"How do intese and the otto per mille system work?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"trends","name":"Trends","description":"Trends.","layers":[{"id":"secularisation","name":"Secularisation","description":"Secularisation.","findings":[{"id":"secularisation-finding","name":"Secularisation","description":"Secularisation.","questions":[{"text":"What do surveys report about religious practice and secularisation in Italy, with sources attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information current?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"immigration","name":"Immigration","description":"Immigration.","findings":[{"id":"immigration-finding","name":"Immigration","description":"Immigration.","questions":[{"text":"How has immigration changed Orthodox, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral and attributed?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"History.","layers":[{"id":"jews","name":"Jewish history","description":"Jews of Italy.","findings":[{"id":"jews-finding","name":"Jewish history","description":"Jewish history.","questions":[{"text":"What is the history of Jewish communities in Rome and Italy?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits history of the Jews in Italy?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"waldensians","name":"Waldensians","description":"Waldensians.","findings":[{"id":"waldensians-finding","name":"Waldensians","description":"Waldensians.","questions":[{"text":"Who are the Waldensians, and how did they survive persecution?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Waldensians?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe religion in Italy, its majority and minority communities, citing surveys and their dates.","Explain the Lateran Pacts and church-state relations factually."],"mustNot":["Present stale or unattributed survey figures as current.","Frame church-state debates in a partisan way without attribution.","Conflate Italy with the Holy See or Vatican City.","Infer a person's religion from their name or origin."],"requiresHuman":["Recording or disclosing the religion of identifiable people."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Religious minorities in Italy, including immigrant communities, deserve fair representation.","Religion is a protected personal matter."],"affectedParties":["Believers of all faiths","Religious minorities","Non-believers"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns it; each religious community governs itself under Italian law.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["National statistics surveys"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q13198592","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"religion on the Earth","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"Lateran Treaty","type":"related"},{"target":"Waldensians","type":"related"},{"target":"Holy See","type":"related"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.religion-in-italy","Wikidata: Q970825 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q970825)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Lateran Pacts: 1929, revised 1984 note","intese agreements: under Article 8 of the Constitution note - with minority religions","Otto per mille: tax allocation to religious bodies note - from 1985"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Religious landscape of Italy","Christianity in Italy, Hinduism in Italy, Baha i Faith in Italy, Buddhism in Italy, religion in Rome, Jehovah s Witnesses in Italy","The Holy See is the Pope s sovereign entity; Vatican City is a separate state; global Catholicism is wider; folk traditions are local","Not a physical object; seen in churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and festivals across Italy."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain demographics and history","relay church-state relations","describe minority communities","present trends with attribution"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Stale or unattributed survey figures","Partisan framing of church-state debates","Conflating Italy and the Holy See"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Italian Constitution Articles 7, 8 and 19","Lateran Pacts and the 1984 Concordat","Intese with religious denominations"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Understanding a national religious landscape.","Catholicism in Italy","Protestant and Orthodox communities","Judaism in Italy","Islam in Italy","Buddhism, Hinduism and Baha i communities"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q970825: religion in Italy","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q970825","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Religion in Italy","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Italy","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should each community be a separate entry?","How should ISTAT and survey data be linked?","How should Islam s lack of an intesa be presented?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q970825/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q970825/spec.json"],"providers":["Claude"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-13T22:45:28Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-06T19:52:03+00:00: completeness 1.00; 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