The religion that is the most dominant in San Pedro La Laguna is Roman Catholicism. This has been the most dominant religion since the 16th century, when the Spaniards colonized Guatemala.
While Guatemala was under a brutal military regime the North American Protestant Evangelical churches were allowed to enter into any community. Since eveangelical churches actively seek out people to convert the amount of people who follow the Protestant religion rose to more than 40 percent of the population of San Pedro La Laguna.
Even though the Protestant and Catholic religions have been dominant for many years, about half of the population still practices the traditional beliefs of the Mayan people either separately or along side another religion. The Maya people believed in a very spiritual world where both good and bad spirits inhabited the world around them. Xocomil, a Maya belief that when the wind comes from the south it "carries away sin", usually visits Lake Atitlán area around midday. If the wind is coming from the north, the Maya claim, the lake's spirit is getting rid of a person who has drowned after claiming his or her soul
