Religion in Sudan

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The dominant religion in Sudan is Islam practiced by around 90.7% of the nation's population. Christianity is the largest minority faith in country accounting for around 5.4% of the population.^[2] A substantial population of the adherents of traditional faiths is also present.

The ancient Nubian kingdoms in modern day Sudan were bastions of Coptic Christianity, but were increasingly threatened by the Islamic expansion from 7th century onwards, with the southernmost of these kingdoms, Alodia, surviving until 1504.^[3][4][5] Nevertheless, the indigenous Nubian Coptic Christians continued to compose a substantial portion of the regions' population up until the nineteenth century, when almost all of them were forcibly converted to Islam under the Mahdist State.^[6] Christianity was reintroduced to the country through European missionaries in the early 20th century.^[7]