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The dominant religion in Sudan is Islam practiced by around 90.7% of the nation's population. Christianity is the largest minority faith in country accounting for around 5.4% of the population. [ 2 ] A substantial population of the adherents of traditional faiths is also present.
Islam is the most common religion in Sudan and Muslims have dominated national government institutions since independence in 1956. According to UNDP Sudan, the Muslim population is 97%, [1] including numerous Arab and non-Arab groups. The remaining 3% ascribe to either Christianity or traditional animist religions.
The GoSS generally respects religious freedom in practice, and pursued policies that contributed to the generally free practice of religion during the period covered by the report. The government favored Muslims over Christians in the north, in part by funding the construction of mosques but not churches.
Kushite religion is the traditional belief ... in present-day Sudan. ... marked a significant period where Nubians maintained their distinct religious practices, as ...
The Masalit primarily live in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, though a few thousand also live in Al Qadarif State in eastern Sudan, and in South Darfur. [1] According to Ethnologue, there were 462,000 total Masalit speakers as of 2011, of whom 350,000 resided in Sudan. [1] Masalit tradition traces their origins to Tunisia. After migrating ...
They belong to the Nilotic peoples, which is a group of cultures in Southern Sudan and wider Eastern Africa. [1] The Dinka people largely rejected or ignored Islamic and Christian teachings, as Abrahamic religious beliefs were incompatible with their society, culture and traditional beliefs. [2]
The Islamization of the Sudan region [1] encompasses a prolonged period of religious conversion, through military conquest and trade relations, spanning the 8th to 16th centuries. Following the 7th century Muslim conquest of Egypt and the 8th-century Muslim conquest of North Africa , Arab Muslims began leading trade expeditions into Sub-Saharan ...
[9] [10] The last census to mention the religion of southerners dates back to 1956 where a majority were classified as following traditional beliefs or were Christian while 18% were Muslim. [11] Scholarly [12] [13] [14] and some U.S. Department of State sources [15] state that a majority of southern Sudanese maintain traditional indigenous ...