lördag 28 juni 2014

First day of Ramadan

Makes me think about how naturally it is here with different religions. What is common for everyone is that they believe in God and belongs to a church. It doesn’t seem to be any tensions between different religious groups. The biggest religion is Christianity with about 82% of the population. Here you found mostly Catholics and Presbyterians. There are also smaller groups of Anglicans, Baptist and Evangelicals.  The second biggest religion is Islam, mainly Sunnis. 5 % of the population is either Atheists or practices traditional African religions.

This of course affects the life here. In my house there are two guards working during the weekend. One is Catholic and the other Presbyterian so one goes to church on Sunday and the other one on Saturday. And the women who helps me in the house is a Muslim so she goes to the mosque on Fridays.

Religion is an important part of life. People are asking me if I believe in God. When I tell them I don’t go to church and I’m not part of any religion they look at me as something must be wrong with her. Maybe it is.

The mosque in Old Town, Lilongwe

3 kommentarer:

  1. InTunisia almost all are muslims bit that is not a problem to us at all. Everybody are very friendly. A funny thing is that before Ramadan all beers were sold out.

    SvaraRadera
  2. Anna hälsar att det kan vara lättare att tro på gud i Afrika; )
    Pröva några olika kyrkor för det kan vara olika

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    1. Hahaha...ja det kan jag tänka mig :-) Tack för tipset!

      Radera