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Croatia is Catholic as a country. The dominant religious context is: Strongly Catholic (~78%) with small Orthodox minority; Catholic identification central to national identity.
Catholic deconstruction in Croatia usually has a family-and-ritual shape rather than a doctrinal one. Many of you stopped practicing years ago and are now navigating around the baptisms, first communions, weddings, and funerals that the family still treats as load-bearing. The pillar page on Catholicism, the page on the guilt that lingers, and the page on funerals and weddings will probably fit closely.
Leaving in Croatia mostly costs you on a family scale rather than a community or legal scale. The conversations are real and sometimes painful, but the wider society is not configured to punish unbelief.
City coverage in Croatia
Zagreb
699K
Split
176K
Rijeka
141K
Osijek
88K
Zadar
71K
Slavonski Brod
61K
Pula
59K
Sesvete
52K
Karlovac
47K
Varaždin
42K
Stenjevec
41K
Šibenik
37K
Centar
37K
Sisak
36K
Velika Gorica
35K
Vinkovci
33K
Vukovar
30K
Dubrovnik
28K
Bjelovar
28K
Koprivnica
26K
Požega
21K
Solin
20K
Zaprešić
20K
Đakovo
19K
Čakovec
16K
Virovitica
16K
Samobor
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Kutina
15K
Metković
14K
Petrinja
14K
Županja
14K
Rovinj
14K
Makarska
13K
Nova Gradiška
13K
Popovača
12K
Križevci
12K
Sinj
12K
Knin
11K
Slatina
11K
Trogir
11K
Brezovica
11K
Poreč
10K
Daruvar
10K
Čepin
10K
Podstrana
9K
Ogulin
9K
Beli Manastir
9K
Našice
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Valpovo
8K
Labin
8K
Opatija
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Umag
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Drenova
8K
Tenja
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Novska
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Belišće
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Crikvenica
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Kaštel Stari
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Ivankovo
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Višnjevac
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