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An indigenous Maya woman kneels in prayer during a traditional Roman Catholic mass in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, May 1, 1982. Catholicism was introduced to Guatemala during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the following centuries, forced conversion and other methods to indoctrinate indigenous communities throughout the country into the Roman Catholic Church produced a syncretism of Catholicism and native Maya traditions.