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Christianity in Somalia

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However, the advent of Islam in the region saw an end to Christianity, not making a return until Italian colonization. In 1903, the first Christian missionaries under the Trinitarian Fathers arrived in Somalia. According to Listowel, they started by providing education and assistance to the poor and
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in the southern part of the country, professing Christians in Somalia have faced persecution and sometimes death. Somalia is number three on Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List, an annual ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution. Apart from
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The Bishop of Mogadishu, Venanzio Francesco Filippini, OFM, declared in 1940 that there were about 40,000 Somali Catholics due to the work of missionaries in the rural regions of Juba and Shebelle, but
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Orthodox Christianity came to coastal areas of the Somalia in early 2nd and 3rd century. Modern day, there are at least some known local Christians in the nation and the self-proclaimed nation of
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In 2023, the country was scored zero out of 4 for religious freedom. In the same year, the country was ranked as the second worst place in the world to be a Christian, just behind North Korea.
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and Southern Arabian Cultures, early Christianity and Judaism was professed by some in the region of Somalia as can be seen by inscriptions, gravesites with stone crosses, and codices in the
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In December 2013, the Ministry of Justice and Religious Affairs released a directive prohibiting the celebration of Christian festivities in the country.
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in 1913, there were virtually no Christians observed in the Somali territories, outside of the around 100–200 followers which existed in the schools and
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reported that four Christians working to help orphans in Somalia were beheaded by Islamist extremists when they refused to convert to Islam.
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ethnic minority group, or are descended from Italian colonists and belong to the Swedish Evangelical Mission, Roman Catholic Church, and
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Paramilitary groups in Somalia have also engaged in widespread looting of Christian graves, in addition to the desecration of
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buildings in the country. Nor is there any legal protection for Christians, some of whom meet in underground churches.
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was first translated into Somali only in 1979. The Diocese of Mogadishu estimates that there were about 100 official
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practitioners in Somalia in 2004. This was down from a high of 8,500 adherents at the start of the
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in 1950, under the Prefecture Apostolic of Benadir of the Vicariate Apostolic of Mogadiscio.
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run by the English, French, and Italians. No Catholic missions are known to have existed in
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The Catholic missionaries of "Consolata" promoted by governor De Vecchi (in Italian)
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is a minority religion within the country, which has a population over 99%
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Somalia is included in the Episcopal Area of the Horn of Africa of the
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indicates that there are no Adventist members in Somalia, and that
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Photo of Somali Bantu with a Missionary of the "Consolata" in 1937
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In 1928, a Catholic cathedral was built in Mogadishu by order of
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damaged in an irreversible way most of the Catholic missions in
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Index

Persecution of Christians in Somalia
Christianity by country

Africa
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya

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