Bahamas

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The Bahamas, a chain of hundreds of islands and cays stretching from just off Florida down toward Cuba, is a strongly Protestant Christian country, Baptist churches the single largest tradition and Anglican, Pentecostal, Church of God and Roman Catholic communities filling out a religious landscape shaped by centuries of British colonial rule and the American Loyalist and enslaved populations who settled the islands after the American Revolution.

Small Rastafarian, Muslim, Baha'i and Jewish communities exist mainly around Nassau, the capital, and religious observance runs deep into Bahamian public life, church attendance remaining markedly higher than in wealthier North American and European societies with comparable incomes. Tourism, the country's dominant industry, has brought sustained exposure to visitors from more secular societies without noticeably weakening the churches' central place in Bahamian community life, and religious broadcasting, gospel radio and televised Sunday services remain a fixture of everyday Bahamian media in a way that has faded in many neighboring islands.

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The constitution's preamble explicitly commits the Bahamian people to what it calls Christian values as a foundation of the nation's freedom, a passage that stops short of naming any established church but sits more openly on the side of Christianity than most Commonwealth Caribbean constitutions, which typically invoke only the supremacy of God in general terms. Article 489 of the Penal Code separately makes it an offense to publish or sell obscene or blasphemous material, punishable by up to two years' imprisonment, but exempts opinion on religious matters expressed in good faith and decent language, and the provision is traditionally unenforced.

The Bahamas holds no concordat with the Holy See, and diplomatic relations run through a nunciature that has never had its own resident nuncio, the title instead held by the prelate serving Trinidad and Tobago, so the country's formal legal treatment of religion runs through a distinctly Christian constitutional preamble rather than through any negotiated relationship with a specific church.