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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, as well as those accused of witchcraft. [15] The freedom to practice religion is a human right in Tanzania.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Religion in Tanzania" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total ...
[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 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 ...
Islam is the most prominent religion on the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago and could be considered the Islamic center in the United Republic of Tanzania.Around 99% of the population in the islands are Muslim, with two-thirds being Sunni Muslim and a minority Ibadi, Ismaili and Twelver Shia.
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]
Lists of religious buildings and structures in Tanzania (1 P) Pages in category "Tanzania religion-related lists" This category contains only the following page.
Tanzania is the only country where this group of people exists. Roman Catholicism , the largest division of the Christian church and one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, is the major religion practiced by the Wungu (Bungu).