Religion in Sudan: Religion..............Percentage.....................................Sunni Islam................. 70 %
.....................................Animist........................25%
.....................................Christian.....................5 %
Religion plays an important role in Sudan, with most of the country's population adhering to Islam, Animist or Christianity.More than half Sudan's population was Moslim in the early 1990s. Most Muslims, perhaps 90 p.c., lived in the north, where they constituted 75 p.c. or more of the population. Data on Christians was less reliable; estimates ranged from 4 to 1o p.c. of the population. at least one-third of the Sudanese and adherents of local religious of their forebears. Most Christian sudanese and adherents of local religious systems lived in SPLM, which in 1991 controlled most of southern Sudan, opposed the imposition of the Sharia. Both Darfur and Northern Sudan are mostly Muslim , where as the South is Animist and Christian.
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