Islam in Equatorial Guinea
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Equatorial Guinea is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion. Due to the secular nature of the country's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country.[1]
In the 2021 Aid to the Church in Need religious freedom report it was estimated that 4.1% of the population were Muslims.[1] Previous estimates by the official press agency of Equatorial Guinea in 2015 reported that 3.5% of the population were Muslim[2] and the U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report 2006 found that practitioners of Islam comprised less than 1 percent of the population.[3]
Malabo Mosque was opened in 2015 and can accommodate two thousand people.[2] On 2 May 2022, over 500 Muslims gathered on the Malabo promenade to pray and celebrate the end of Ramadan known as Eid al-Fitr after not being able to perform these prayers at the end of the fasting month in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions.[4] Equatorial Guinea's imam Pedro Benigno Matute Tang said that the main message for 2022 was that muslims must love one another and educate their children because a "well-educated child, with discipline, cannot adhere to vandalism groups".[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Equatorial Guinea" (PDF). Aid to the Church in Need. 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ a b Obama, Javier Nsue Nchama (23 July 2015). "Inaugurada la nueva Mezquita de Malabo". Guinea Ecuatorial Press (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Equatorial Guinea". U.S. Department of State. 2006. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022.
- ^ "Dos a�os despu�s los musulmanes de Guinea Ecuatorial vuelven a festejar de forma solemne el fin del Ramad�n". Revista Real Equatorial Guinea (in Spanish). 2 May 2022. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Acaba, B�lgica Nv� (2 May 2022). "La comunidad musulmana de Guinea Ecuatorial celebra el fin del Ramad�n". AhoraEG (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
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