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About five percent of the population is Muslim, mostly concentrated in the south. Many of their political leaders are involved in an on-again off-again insurgency against the government, where today's insurgents may be tomorrow's government officials, and rebellion is alternately secular nationalist or Islamist. Before the coming of the Spanish, Islam was the main religion in the country.
A somewhat larger minority are the various Protestant groups in the country. Some are homegrown, like the Philippine Independent Church, also known by its Spanish name ''Iglesia Filipina Independiente'' and colloquially referred to as "Aglipayans" (after its first Supreme Bishop Gregorio Aglipay), which is a nationalist offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church co-founded by socialist author Isabelo de los Reyes and Aglipay after a schism spurred by mistreatment of the Filipinos by Spanish priests and the execution of [[José Rizal]] during Spanish colonial rule (interestingly enough, Aglipay joined the Freemasonry despite his priesthood, something the Vatican ''would not take kindly to'' due to their views on said fraternal society) and the Iglesia ni Cristo, a nontrinitarian denomination founded by Felix Manalo in 1914, whose doctrine stresses that there's no salvation outside of the INC and that Manalo is the "last messenger".
Others are the result of American missionaries from the usual complement of denominations (Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and so on). Aside from these, especially in the provinces are the Rizalistas (people who venerate Jose Rizal as a prophet) and the myriad of hybrid Animist-Catholic practices often known as Folk Catholicism.
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