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A 2006 inquiry in Flanders , long considered more religious than the Brussels or Wallonia regions in Belgium , showed 55% of its inhabitants calling themselves religious while 36% claimed believing that God created the world.Inquiry by 'Vepec', 'Vereniging voor Promotie en Communicatie' (Organisation for Promotion and Communication), published in Knack Magazine 22 Nov 2006 p.14 Dutch language term 'gelovig' is in the text translated as 'religious', more precisely it is a very common word for believing in particular in any kind of God in a Monotheistic sense, and/or in some Afterlife .. THE STATUS OF RECOGNIZED DENOMINATIONS have also applied for official recognition. Official recognition means that priests (called "counsellors" within the secular organizations) receive a state stipend, and that parents can choose any recognized denomination to provide religious education to their children if they attend an official school. After attaining autonomy from the federal state level in religious matters, the Flemish regional parliament voted a new Flemish regional decree on recognized religious denominations, installing democratically elected church councils for all recognized religious denominations and made them subject to the same administrative rules as local government bodies - with important repercussions as far as financial accounting and Open Government are concerned. In 2006, exceptionally, Roman Catholic church councils were still appointed by the bishops they resorted under, as the Roman Catholic Church still had not decided on the criteria for eligibility. Many Flemings baptized in the Roman Catholic faith as infants have since become agnostic, or converted to another faith. HISTORY Religion was one of the differences between the Roman Catholic south and the Protestant north of the United Kingdom Of The Netherlands , which eventually broke up in 1830 when the south seceded to form Belgium. Since was asked by the King to find a solution, which consisted of having Baudouin declared unfit to fulfill his constitutional duties as a monarch for some days, while Government ministers signed in his place. Hinduism also has followers in Belgium. SEE ALSO
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