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Christianity is by far the most common faith in Liberia, with recent surveys showing Christians making up 83-86% of the population, up significantly from surveys in the 1980s. By contrast, Islam has declined slightly from 14-15% in the 1980s to 11-12% in recent surveys. Traditional religions and non-religious individuals have seen greater declines.
The Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention has its origins in an American mission of the Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society in 1821. [ 1 ] It is officially founded in 1880. [ 2 ] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 292 churches and 55,325 members.
The Catholic Church in Liberia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2020, there were approximately 348,000 Catholics in Liberia (7.52% of the population). [1] There are 3 dioceses including 1 archdiocese: [2] Monrovia. Cape Palmas (located in Harper, Maryland County)
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Lott Cary Providence Baptist Church's old sanctuary, site of the signing of the Liberian Declaration of Independence in 1847.. Lott Cary (also in records as Lott Carey and Lott Gary) (1780 – November 10, 1828) was an African-American Baptist minister and lay physician who was a missionary leader in the founding of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa in the 1820s.
William Wadé Harris (c. 1860 – 1929) was a Liberian Grebo evangelist, who preached in Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. [1] He has been described as the "most extraordinary one man evangelical crusade that Africa has ever known" [2] and is considered one of the originators of today's prosperity gospel.
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