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The largest Christian churches in Malawi are the Roman Catholic Church, of which 19% of Malawians are adherents, and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) to which 18% belong. [2] The CCAP is the largest Protestant denomination in Malawi with 1.3 million members.
David Livingstone reached the lake he named Lake Nyasa, now Lake Malawi in 1859. Livingstone's famous appeal, made at a great meeting in the Senate House at Cambridge on December 4, 1857 led to the founding of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (), and the first missionary expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa arrived in Malawi in 1861.
Islam is the second largest religion in Malawi behind Christianity. Nearly all of Malawi's Muslims adhere to Sunni Islam. [1] Though difficult to assess, [2] according to the CIA Factbook, in 2018 about 13.8% of the country's population was Muslim. [3] Muslim organisations in the country claim a figure of 15-20%. [4]
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Central Africa, for instance, has similar religious traditions in countries of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Malawi. [33] The people in these countries who follow traditional religious practices often venerate ancestors through rituals and worship the land or a " divinity " through ...
List of Christian denominations in the Republic of Malawi, Africa. List. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)
A 1906 British Central Africa map showing the distribution of various ethnic groups. Tumbuka are marked as Batumbuka and shown near the German East Africa region in this map. The Tumbuka probably entered the area between the Luangwa valley and northern Lake Malawi in the 15th century.