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C. About 92 percent of Filipinos are Christians.
D. The Spanish established a colony in the 16th century and named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. Spanish rule unified the fragmented states of the archipelago and converted the people to Catholicism.
B. With an estimated population of over 252 million people, Indonesia is world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia also is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation with 87 percent of its people following Islam. Indonesia's islands are south of the Philippines.
A. The Philippines is investigating the involvement of Filipino Islamists in the three-year civil war in Syria after two locals were reported killed fighting for Islamic State militant group. Intelligence officials have noticed a gradual increase of foreign fighters heading to Syria coming from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Xinjiang, a troubled province in western China.