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Christianity is the largest religion in Tanzania, with a substantial Muslim minority. Smaller populations of Animists, practitioners of other faiths, and religiously unaffiliated people are also present. [2] [3] Tanzania is a secular state and freedom of religion is enshrined in the country's constitution. Both Christian and Islamic feasts are ...
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[3] [4] According to the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), 55.3% of the population is Christian, 31.5% is Muslim, 11.3% practices traditional faiths, while 1.9% of the population is non-religious or adheres to other faiths as of 2020. [5] The ARDA estimates that most Tanzanian Muslims are Sunni, with a small Shia minority, as of ...
The government of Zanzibar appoints Muslim religious officials in Zanzibar. The main body of law in Tanzania and Zanzibar is secular, but Muslims have the option to use religious courts for family-related cases. Individual cases of religiously motivated violence have occurred against both Christians and Muslims. [1]
The Eastern Orthodox Church claims an estimated 200,000 adherents in Tanzania. [8] The United Methodist Church claims 8,371 members in Tanzania. [9] In 2020, the Vatican noted that 30.41% of the population are Catholic. [10] A 2015 study estimates some 180,000 believers in Christ from a Muslim background living in the country, most of them ...
The politics of Tanzania takes place in a framework of a unitary presidential democratic republic, whereby the President of Tanzania is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament.
In 2023, there are 120,000 Moravians in West Tanzania alone [4] and almost half a million throughout the country, meaning that more than half of all Moravians in the world live in Tanzania. [5] [6] The main Protestant denominations are the Lutheran Church, the Anglican Church of Tanzania and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. [7]