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Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan.Muslims make up about 97.2% of the country's population. [1] [2] A few of them are Shiites.Many Shia in Jordan are refugees from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
This is the result of high immigration rate of Muslims into Jordan, high emigration rates of Christians, and high birth rates for Muslims. Jordan's Arab Christians are exceptionally well integrated in the Jordanian society and enjoy a high level of freedom. [3] All Christian religious ceremonies are allowed to be publicly celebrated in Jordan. [4]
The 1952 Constitution grants freedom of religion while stipulating that the king and his successors must be Muslims and sons of Muslim parents. [3] Religious minorities include Christians of various denominations (1%) and even fewer adherents of other faiths. [citation needed] Jordan is a religious and conservative country. [4]
The Constitution provides for the freedom to practice the rites of one's religion and faith in accordance with the customs that are observed in the kingdom, unless they violate public order or morality. According to the Constitution the state religion is Islam and the King must be Muslim. The Government prohibits conversion from Islam and ...
The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2023, Christians made up 2.1% of Jordan 's population. [ 1 ] Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholics (115,000 people).
Jordan renounced claims to the territory in 1988, and signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, whose ninth article states that Israel commits to "respect the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem" and that "when negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high ...
Jordan is a key ally of the US and UK and, together with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, is one of only three Arab nations to have signed peace treaties with Israel, Jordan's direct neighbour. [159] Jordan views an independent Palestinian state with the 1967 borders as part of the two-state solution and of supreme national interest. [160]
Druze in Jordan refers to adherents of the Druze faith, an ethnoreligious [2] esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unitarians (Muwahhideen). [3] Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion , and Druze do not identify as Muslims .