Religious Freedom World Report

Prepared by the International Coalition for Religious Freedom

Gambia

Gambia has a population of about 1.4 million people comprised of Mandinka (42 percent), Fula (18 percent), Wolof (16 percent), Jola (ten percent), Serahuli (nine percent), other Africans (four percent), and non Africans (one percent). The religious community is 90 percent Muslim, nine percent Christian and one percent indigenous beliefs. Adherents of all faiths are free to worship without government restriction. The new constitution, adopted in 1996, provides for freedom of religion.

2003 U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report on Gambia

 

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