Religion in Chad
Islam and Christianity are the most widely professed religions in Chad. Smaller populations of non-religious people as well as adherents of other faiths are also present.[2][3]
Among Chadian Muslims, 95% professed to be Sunni, 1% Shia, and 4% other. They are largely concentrated in the northern and eastern regions, whereas animists and Christians live primarily in southern Chad and Guéra.[4]
Islam was brought in the course of the Muslim conquest of the Sudan region, in the case of Chad completed in the 11th century with the conversion of the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
Christianity arrived in Chad with the French, at the end of the 19th century.[5] Among Chadian Christians, 22.8% profess to be Catholic and 17.9% profess to be Protestant.