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After the Prophet's death, the Quran appeared. The history of Christianity in Nigeria dates back to the 15th century when the cities of Benin and Warri came in contact with the religion. In India, which has the second-largest Muslim population, Islam is a minority religion (making up 15% of the country’s population) and Hinduism is the majority faith. They preached the message of Christ and also healed the sick people.

At least one state, Zamfara, requires sharia courts to hear civil cases in which all litigants are Muslim and provides the option to appeal any decision to the common law court. The government continued its detention of El-Zakzaky despite a December 2016 court ruling that he be released by January 2017. NIGERIA 2019 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT Executive Summary The constitution bars the federal and state governments from adopting a state religion, prohibits religious discrimination, and provides for individuals’ freedom ... Christians, while approximately 2 percent belong to other or no religious groups. Christians are in the south.

Some domestic and international Christian groups stated that Fulani were targeting Christians on account of their religion. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa.

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It was created in 1914. Sharia courts function in 12 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory. Upon his return home the government returned him to custody, where he remained through the end of the year.On November 27, police broke up an IMN protest and arrested 12 members and two journalists. In July the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, criticized the government’s action banning the IMN as a threat to religious freedom for all believers, according to local and Catholic media. The government launched new security operations in the North West states and continued ongoing operations in the North Central states that it stated were meant to stem insecurity created by armed criminal gangs and violent conflict over land and water resources, which frequently involved predominantly Muslim Fulani herders and settled farmers, who were both Muslim and Christian.

The country features 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, which is known as Abuja.The country of Nigeria features over five hundred different ethnic groups, many different languages, and declared its independence from the United Kingdom on October 1, 1960. Local and international NGOs and religious organizations criticized the government’s perceived inability to prevent or mitigate violence between Christian and Muslim communities.U.S. In July the Kaduna State Commissioner for Education announced that Quranic schools would be integrated into the formal education system. The Nigerian census for 1963 showed that 38% of the population was Muslim, 36% Christian, and 26% other.

It provides for freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the freedom to change one’s religion and to manifest and propagate religion “in worship, teaching, practice, and observance,” provided these rights are consistent with the interests of defense, public safety, order, morality, or health, and protecting the rights of others.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations Nigeria Security Tracker, Boko Haram has destroyed 59 churches and 22 mosques since 2010.Numerous fatal clashes continued throughout the year in the North Central region between predominantly Christian farmers from various ethnic groups and predominantly Fulani Muslim herders. “Top 10” lists can often be helpful in displaying and illuminating data.