OTTAWA – A new ranking has named Canada the most spiritual country in theworld.
On the Global Spirituality Index, released by luxury travel planning agencyWayfairer Travel, Canada took the top spot after ranking highly incategories like quality of life and religious freedom.
Because for the list, authors evaluated countries on more than just thenumber of people who report a religious affiliation.
Along with religious population, diversity, and spiritual sights, thereport also scored countries on religious tolerance, freedom, wellness andquality of life.
Interestingly, while Canada scored low marks in the category of religiouspopulation (2 out of a possible 7 points), it made up for it for the lossin categories like diversity and quality of life, with a perfect seven outof seven score.
After Canada, Italy, India, Japan and the UK round out the top five spots.
At the other end of the spectrum, Syria landed at the bottom of the heap,after Slovakia and Iraq.
Here are the top 10 most spiritual countries on the Global SpiritualityIndex:
1. Canada
2. Italy
3. India
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4. Japan
5. UK
6. USA
7. Mexico
8. Australia
9. Philippines
10. Tie: Germany, Switzerland
– APP/AFP
