Friday, March 19th, 2010

There are about 1.4 million people in Guinea-Bissau. Only 5 percent of the people claim to be Christian, while 50 percent are adherents of various indigenous beliefs and 45 percent are Sunni Muslim. Fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998. Missionaries in the last year have had Imams asking them for Bible teachers to come to their village! Pastors in Bissau have been taking Christian leadership seminars and are now seeing open doors to preach and teach. Hundreds of people showed up for the first showing of the Jesus film in Fula.

Countries around the world with Muslim populations of at least 10% or with more than 1 million. Countries with a * have a Muslim majority or at least 50% Muslim.