Cameroon
Christianity is the largest religion in Cameroon, being particularly strong in the south and the west. Islam is strongest in the north of the country.
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Brunei
Around 80% of Brunei’s population are Muslim. Christians and Buddhists both account for about 8%. The majority of Christians are ethnically Chinese.
Bangladesh
Nearly 90% of Bangladeshis would identify as Muslim, the vast majority of whom would be Sunni. Hinduism is the country’s second largest religion. Christians account for less than 1% of the population.
Sudan
Christianity has a long history in the areas of what are now both Sudan and South Sudan. However, as a result of the separation in 2011, about 97% of the population of Sudan would now be identified as…
South Sudan
Christianity has a long history in the region that, since 2011, is known as South Sudan. It is estimated that today around 60% of South Sudan’s population would identify as Christian. Among Protestant…
Somalia
Christians make up a tiny proportion of Somalia’s population. Sunni Islam is the official religion of state. Most Somalis believe that to be Somali is to be Muslim and often take their Islamist cultur…
Myanmar
About 80% of Myanmar’s 55 million population would be identified as Buddhist. Christianity, which has a long history in the region, is considered the second largest religion in the country. The majori…
Lebanon
The Maronite Church (an Eastern branch of Catholicism) and the Eastern Orthodox constitute the largest denominations. Protestants are reckoned to make up about 1% of the population. The country’s cons…
Laos
About 60% of Laotians would consider themselves to be Buddhists. In practice this has always been heavily intertwined with local polytheism and animism. Christianity constitutes a small minority of th…
Indonesia
Christianity is the second largest religion in Indonesia, after Islam. In 2018 it was stated that 11% of the population were Christian, of which 8% were Protestant. Indonesia’s constitution provides f…
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s constitution provides for freedom of religion and worship and the government generally protects the rights of Christians. Most Christians in the country worship freely, although Evangelical…
Bhutan
The monarch of Bhutan regards himself as the defender of the Buddhist faith. Christians are often viewed as followers of a foreign, Western religion and can be subject to various forms of discriminati…