U.S. Department of State Human Rights Report 1998

The Constitution provides for complete religious freedom, and the Government respects this right in practice. There is little religious discrimination. Roman Catholic religious instruction is no longer mandatory in public schools, and a 1994 Constitutional Court decision declared unconstitutional any official government reference to religious characterizations of the country. The Government permits proselytizing among the indigenous population, provided that it is welcome and does not induce members of indigenous communities to adopt changes that endanger their survival on traditional lands. The law on the freedom of religion provides a mechanism for religions to obtain the status of recognized legal entities.
Both the Constitutional Court (on October 7) and the Council of State (on November 19) found that Jehovah's Witnesses and Mennonite seminarians had been regularly forced into military service, in violation of constitutional and other provisions for conscientious objectors. Both the court and council directed the Government to exempt the two churches' seminarians in the same manner that it exempted Roman Catholic seminarians.

Source: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998, U.S. Department of State.