Home›Sources›Religious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)SourcesReligious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)SWI swissinfo.ch, read 2026-08-16Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Religious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/swissinfo-2019-cantonal-religious-recognition.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Religious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/swissinfo-2019-cantonal-religious-recognitionCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-religious-recognition-in-switzerland-a-c, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Religious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/swissinfo-2019-cantonal-religious-recognition}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXSWI swissinfo.ch's account of Switzerland's Article 72, which leaves the relationship between church and state to each of the twenty six cantons rather than to the federal constitution, so that most cantons maintain an established Landeskirche under public law while Geneva and Neuchatel separate church and state entirely.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (9 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedSwiss Broadcasting CorporationPublisherWell-attestedSWI swissinfo.chURLWell-attestedhttps://swissinfo.ch/eng/diversity_religious-recognition-in-switzerland-a-cantonal-affair/43119764Source TypeWell-attestednews featureAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Tier 2: the Swiss national public broadcaster's own account of a genuinely fragmented, cantonal legal picture that no single federal text can summarize.Cross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithGeneva, Cities Well-attested This source names Geneva directly: "Landeskirche under public law while Geneva and Neuchatel separate church and state entirely."Source Religious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)Swiss Broadcasting Corporationtier 2Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested7CountriesSwitzerlandSourcesReligious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)Holds1SourcesReligious Recognition in Switzerland, a Cantonal Affair (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2019)General References1CountriesSwitzerlandComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year