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- ↑ International Religious Freedom Report 2007: Guyana. United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ "Guyana - RELIGION". countrystudies.us. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- 1 2 "Guyana". Freedom of Thought Report. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
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