Smaller shares of African Americans identify with Protestantism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam ... ..…

It is, thus, easy to understand the initiative taken by the United States to break the united front of Asian and African states set up at Bandung (1955) by creating an “Islamic Conference,” immediately promoted (from 1957) by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. ..…

two of the largest black Protestant denominations, National Baptist Convention and African Methodist Episcopal Church, have almost black members.. Topics Christians and Christianity, Muslims and Islam, Jews and Judaism, Hindus and Hinduism, Religion and Society, Religious Affiliation,..…

Islam ranks second to Christianity many African countries, particularly in sub-Saharan belt of nations that run across the continent. ..…

In the early 1990s, President Bill Clinton, concerned about the specter of Islam Africa, secured military alliances with number of African strongmen, among them Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni.1 Since then, human rights groups have accused Museveni, now in his twenty-eighth power, of..…

., 59% are African Americans, including a sizable majority who have converted to Islam (69%). ... Muslims are African Americans whose parents were born in the United States. . ..…

Four-in-ten Muslims who identify themselves as Sunni believe Islam is the true faith only half as many Shia Muslims say the same. nearly half of all native-born African Americans believe Islam is the true faith leading to salvation, compared with only third of foreign-born..…

The survey findings suggest that many Africans are deeply committed to Islam or Christianity and yet continue to practice elements of traditional African religions. ... Despite the dominance of Christianity and Islam, traditional African religious beliefs and practices..…

Among native-born Muslims, roughly half are African American (20% of U.S. ... However, there is somewhat more acceptance of Islamic extremism in some segments of the U.S. ..…