The constitution declares that
the state is secular and provides for freedom of religion. The government
respects this right in practice. Some funding is provided to religious
organizations for purposes such as education, public service or events.
Religious education is not permitted in government schools, but is permitted in
religious schools that receive government funds.
Missionary activity is permitted, and foreign Christian missionaries are
active in several regions of the country. Conversion is permitted, and there is no discrimination against minority
religions. Relations between people of different faiths is generally good. There
is a small movement of Islamicists who seek to establish a secular state, but
most Senegalese Muslims belong to traditional religious communities based on
tribe or locality. Muslim brotherhoods exert a prominent influence but do so
through the prestige of their position rather than through direct political
organization.
2003 U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report on Senegal
Alleanza Catolica 1998 Report on Senegal
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