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Honduras is a predominantly Christian country, with Islam being a small minority religion. Due to secular nature of the country's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The statistics for Islam in Honduras estimate a total Muslim population of 11,000 representing 0.1 percent of the population.[1][2]
Although there are no official statistics, it is estimated that more than 300,000 of the country's ten million inhabitants are of Arab descent, and of these, the great majority are Palestinian and Lebanese Arabs.[3][4] However, the vast majority of these Arabs are of Orthodox and Catholic Christian descent. No other country in the Western Hemisphere has a higher proportion of Arab immigrants and, in absolute numbers, Honduras ranks seventh after the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada and Chile.[5] There are two known Islamic organizations in Honduras, including the Centro Islámico de Honduras in San Pedro Sula led by Yusuf Amdani, and the Comunidad Islámica de Honduras in Cortés.
- ^ Pew Research Center, Mapping the Global Muslim Population. A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population, October 2029, p. 33 [1] Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Por qué América Latina es la única región del mundo donde no crecerá el islam". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
- ^ Luxner, Larry (July–August 2001). "The Arabs of Honduras". Saudi Aramco World.
- ^ Espín Ocampo, Julieta (2020-05-29). "Origen y evolución de la comunidad palestina en Chile". Relaciones Internacionales. 93 (1): 113–132. doi:10.15359/ri.93-1.5. hdl:11268/9602. ISSN 2215-4582.
- ^ The Arabs of Honduras, Luxner, L., JA 01: 34-37