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According to the 2014 National Census, Islam in Uganda was practised by 14 percent of the population. [1] The Pew Research Center in 2014, however, estimated that 11.5 percent of Ugandans were Muslim, compared to 35.2 percent of Tanzanians, 9.7 percent of Kenyans, 6.2 percent of South Sudanese, 2.8 percent of Burundians, and 1.8 percent of ...
Christianity is the predominant religion in Uganda. According to the 2024 census, Approximately 82 percent of the population was Christian, while around 13 percent of the population adhered to Islam , making it the largest minority religion. [ 2 ]
South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. [22] [23] [24] Islam is the dominant religion in the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with more than 200 million ...
Pages in category "Ugandan Muslims" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Feroz Abbasi;
Muslim 13.7% other 1.6% none 0.2% (2014 est.) Uganda is a religiously diverse nation with Christianity being the most widely professed religion. According to the 2014 census, over 84 percent of the population was Christian while about 14 percent of the population adhered to Islam, making it the largest minority religion. [15]
Being Muslim in America means… “Finding the appropriate balance between committing to your faith and trying to make sense of the negative rhetoric and stereotypes from segments of our own American society. There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants.
Moments like this — like the aftermath of 9/11 or the reckoning after former President Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban in 2017 — moved many to conceal their ethnicity or cover their faith ...
In the 1960s, many Ugandans immigrated to places such as Chicago, many of them to study at selected universities. [2] In 1975, 859 Ugandans emigrated, most fleeing Idi Amin 's regime. [ 3 ] They were mostly of Indian descent, whose families had lived in Uganda for several generations.