Religion in Kiribati there are 38 local spiritual assemblies. The 2010 census listed smaller religions such as Te Kouau, Assembly of God, Church of God, and Islam as other options. According to the Association of Religion Data Archives, there is a non-negligible population of Buddhists comprising less than 0.1% of the population. Unlike many Pacific Island countries, there was no significant Indian migration to Kiribati and in 1981, the Indian population comprised only 15 people, mostly expatriates on assignment from the Government of India. The main religions of the Indian families in Kiribati are Hinduism, Sikhism, and Christianity. On 30 October, 1978, a
Religion (virtue) good, and Religion orders man's relationship to God, Aquinas finds it a distinct virtue whose purpose is to render God the worship due to Him as the source of all being. He views the virtue of religion as indispensable for attaining the end to which divine providence has ordained humanity —everlasting happiness in communion with God. The virtue of Religion is differentiated from other virtues by its object, which is to offer to God the homage demanded by His entirely singular excellence. It is not a theological virtue, because its immediate object is not God, but rather the reverence to