Categories: christianity
Date: 28 March 2009 01:42:04
Somalia
Languages: Somali, Arabic
Somalia is a Muslim country (99%) with a tiny number of Christians, most of them converts from Islam. There is a general feeling that a true Somali is a Muslim and Christians are often associated with the oppression of the country by colonial masters. There is also a long history of conflict between Muslim Somalis and Christian Ethiopians which escalated in 2006 when Ethiopian forces intervened in the Somali civil war.
The government has not put measures in place to provide for freedom of worship and religion and so the situation for Christians in Somalia is very difficult indeed.