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<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Angola", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola, accessed | There are about 1,000 religious communities, mostly Christian, in Angola. While reliable statistics are nonexistent, estimates have it that more than half of the population are '''Catholics''', while about a quarter adhere to the Protestant churches introduced during the colonial period: the '''Congregationalists''' mainly among the Ovimbundu of the Central Highlands and the coastal region to its west, the '''Methodists''' concentrating on the Kimbundu speaking strip from Luanda to Malanje, the '''Baptists''' almost exclusively among the Bakongo of the north-west (now present in Luanda as well) and dispersed '''Adventists, Reformed and Lutherans'''. | ||
<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Angola", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola, accessed 17 March 2020. </ref><ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Angola", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Angola, accessed 17 March 2020. </ref><br> | |||
==Information Recorded in the Records== | ==Information Recorded in the Records== | ||