Christianity is a small minority religion in Mauritania.
In 2020, the estimated Christian population amount was only 0.23% of the population. There are between 10,000 and 11,000 Christians in Mauritania in 2023, mostly foreign expatriates.
All of the roughly 4,000 Catholics in Mauritania are within the country's only diocese, the Diocese of Nouakchott. In 2020, there were 11 priests and 34 nuns serving 5 parishes.
There are several expatriate African churches in Mauritania, though there are no more than 200 Protestants in the country, including foreigners.
In spite of a strict law against evangelization, the Mauritanian Christian community has allegedly grown and there were estimated to be 400-1,000 ethnic Mauritanian Christians in 2010. For a short period of eight months the Miracle Channel, a Norwegian/Swedish Christian channel, broadcast clandestine Christian gatherings in the Mauritanian desert containing over 160 people.
Issues
The distribution of Christian literature and the evangelizing of non-Muslims are prohibited by law. Bibles are rarely printed or distributed and are difficult to bring into the country.
In 2023, the country was ranked as the 20th worst place in the world to be a Christian.
See also
References
- World Religion Database at the ARDA website, retrieved 2023-08-08
- A. Lamport, Mark (2021). Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 497. ISBN 9781442271579.
Influences - Christian influences in Mauritanian society are limited to the approximately 10,000 foreign nationals living in the country
- Open Doors website, retrieved 2023-08-08
- Catholics And Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-08
- World Watch List 2010: #8. Mauritania Archived 2010-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
- "Troens Bevis Verdens Evangelisering - Så på Miracle Channel midt i Mauritanias ørken - Norwegian language". Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- US State Dept 2022 report
- Open Doors website, retrieved 2023-08-08
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