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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Black; color:white;"> </span> Others (1%)</div> </div> </div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg/220px-Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg/330px-Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg/440px-Catholic_Christ_the_King_Cathedral_20200211.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption><a 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title="Christianity">Christianity</a> is the largest <b>religion in Botswana</b>. However, the country is officially secular and allows <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of religious practice</a>. </p><p>Christianity arrived in <a href="/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana">Botswana</a> in mid 1870s, with the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Christian_mission" title="Christian mission">European missionaries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Bank_Group_2016_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Bank_Group_2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conversion process was quicker than neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Southern_Africa" title="Southern Africa">southern African</a> countries because regional hereditary tribal chiefs locally called <i><a href="/wiki/Kgosi" title="Kgosi">Dikgosi</a></i> converted to Christianity, which triggered the entire group they led to convert as well.<sup id="cite_ref-SwartzTaylor2013p67_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwartzTaylor2013p67-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Animism" title="Animism">Animism</a> was the prevailing belief system of the country.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/London_Missionary_Society" title="London Missionary Society">London Missionary Society</a> sent the first <a href="/wiki/Christian_mission" title="Christian mission">Christian missionaries</a> to Botswana in 1812. Other missionary groups were restricted by Motswana chiefs to avoid religious conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The missionaries were welcomed because the tribal chiefs believed they would help source guns to resist <a href="/wiki/Afrikaner" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrikaner">Afrikaner</a> trekkers from south and to prevent other nations from taking power in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-SwartzTaylor2013p67_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwartzTaylor2013p67-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/BaNgwato" class="mw-redirect" title="BaNgwato">BaNgwato</a> and <a href="/wiki/BaNgwaketse" class="mw-redirect" title="BaNgwaketse">BaNgwaketse</a> tribes were the first to wholly adopt Christianity in the 1890s and 1900s, and their respective chiefs banned several tribal practices that contradicted Christian teachings.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Seven_Years_in_South_Africa,_page_397,_training_the_boys.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_397%2C_training_the_boys.jpg/220px-Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_397%2C_training_the_boys.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_397%2C_training_the_boys.jpg/330px-Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_397%2C_training_the_boys.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_397%2C_training_the_boys.jpg/440px-Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_397%2C_training_the_boys.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1928" data-file-height="1755" /></a><figcaption>Beating boys as a part of the Bogwera ceremony (1870s)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg/220px-Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="355" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg/330px-Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg/440px-Hindu_temple_gaborone01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2875" data-file-height="4634" /></a><figcaption>BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mission, <a href="/wiki/Gaborone" title="Gaborone">Gaborone</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>After the arrival of Christianity in Botswana, the missionaries established Bible schools and attempted to end old practices such as <i>Bogwera</i> (the tribe's traditional initiation ceremony into manhood) and <i>Bojale</i> (a girl's initiation ceremony into womanhood after she reached puberty), both of which were traditionally linked to the social acceptance of someone's readiness to marry as well the right to inherit property.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> These practices continued to exist in private, despite missionary efforts to end them.<sup id="cite_ref-SwartzTaylor2013p67_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwartzTaylor2013p67-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Christian missionaries were politically involved as interpreters between the tribal chiefs and the colonial administrators.<sup id="cite_ref-Bongmba2015p389_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bongmba2015p389-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Botswana gained independence in 1966 from the colonial rule, senior Christian mission officials and priests served as the first Speaker of the National Assembly and as officials in the new government.<sup id="cite_ref-Bongmba2015p389_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bongmba2015p389-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1970s, its new leaders reviewed the Christian colonial curriculum in schools, and revised it in order to restore traditional values based on pre-Christian religious ideas, such as <i>Kagisanyo</i> and <i>Botho</i>, respectively harmony and humanism.<sup id="cite_ref-SwartzTaylor2013p67_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwartzTaylor2013p67-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shillington163_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shillington163-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Bogwera</i> and <i>Bojale</i> were re-introduced.<sup id="cite_ref-SwartzTaylor2013p67_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwartzTaylor2013p67-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new leaders also adopted a policy of religious tolerance and freedom, an approach towards religion that continues in Botswana in the 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the school curriculum remains largely as before, with Christian terminology and ideologies.<sup id="cite_ref-SwartzTaylor2013p67_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SwartzTaylor2013p67-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the country’s 2011 census, 79% of the population are members of Christian groups.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, a report published by the Botswana government said that: </p> <ul><li>63 percent of its citizens were Christians of various denominations,</li> <li>about 27 percent said their religion was "God",</li> <li>about 8 percent claimed to have no religion,</li> <li>2 percent were adherents of the traditional indigenous religion <i>Badimo</i>, and</li> <li>all other religious groups (Buddhism, Hinduism (0.3%), Islam (0.4%), Judaism, and others) were less than 1 percent of Botswana's population in total.<sup id="cite_ref-U.S._Department_of_State2016_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.S._Department_of_State2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religions">Religions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Baháʼí_Faith"><span id="Bah.C3.A1.CA.BC.C3.AD_Faith"></span>Baháʼí Faith</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Baháʼí Faith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith_in_Botswana" title="Baháʼí Faith in Botswana">Baháʼí Faith in Botswana</a></div> <p>As of 2001, there were approximately 700 members of the Baháʼí Faith in Botswana.<sup id="cite_ref-report_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-report-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christianity">Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Botswana" title="Christianity in Botswana">Christianity in Botswana</a></div> <p>Christianity is the majority religion in Botswana. According to the country’s 2011 census, 79% of the population are members of Christian groups.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christian churches in Botswana include the mainline churches created by missionaries, <a href="/wiki/African-initiated_church" title="African-initiated church">African-initiated churches</a> created independently by Batswana, and <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostal</a> churches.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Christian missionaries first arrived in Botswana in 1812, and Christianity was widely adopted during the colonial period of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Botswana recognises only Christian holidays as public holidays. The nationwide religious observations include Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, and Christmas.<sup id="cite_ref-U.S._Department_of_State2016_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.S._Department_of_State2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Botswana" title="Hinduism in Botswana">Hinduism in Botswana</a></div> <p>Hinduism is a minority religion practised by 0.3% of the population of Botswana.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of January 2016, there are five Hindu temples in Botswana, including the Sai Temple and ISKCON Temple in Gaborone.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islam">Islam</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> is a minority religion in Botswana. It came to the country through <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> immigrants from <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a>, who settled in the area during the British colonial rule. According to the 2011 census, there are around 11,000 Muslims in Botswana,<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it believed that this figure has since gone down. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia</a> population in <a href="/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana">Botswana</a> is estimated between one and three percent of the total <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Muslim</a> population of Botswana; according to <a href="/wiki/Pew_Forum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pew Forum">Pew Forum</a> it is less than one percent<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while as per Ahl al-Bayt World Assembly the population of Shia in Botswana is around two percent of the total Muslim population of Botswana.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Indian Muslims were the first Islamic populations in Botswana when they arrived around the 1890s. These Indian Muslims were limited to urban areas by the colonial authorities. Within some brief time, Muslims established Islamic centres throughout one urban centre to another as cities and Muslim populations increased.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Malawian Muslims began to appear around the 1950s in <a href="/wiki/Francistown" title="Francistown">Francistown</a>. They arrived mainly for job opportunities like mining.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were very few conversions to Islam until the 1970s. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shaykh_Ali_Mustapha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shaykh Ali Mustapha (page does not exist)">Shaykh Ali Mustapha</a> of Guyana has proselytised in Botswana since the 1970s, where missions are concentrated in townships and prisons.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gaborone" title="Gaborone">Gaborone</a> is considered the heart of Botswanan Islam with a modernised mosque being built in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Judaism">Judaism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><i>See also <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Botswana" title="History of the Jews in Botswana">History of the Jews in Botswana</a></i></dd></dl> <p>The history of the <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> in Botswana is relatively modern and centred in the city of <a href="/wiki/Gaborone" title="Gaborone">Gaborone</a>. Most Jews in Botswana are Israelis and South Africans.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Only about 100 Jews lived in Botswana during the 2000s, with almost all living in Gaborone. The community was predominantly <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Jews" title="Israeli Jews">Jewish Israelis</a> working in agriculture, business, and industry. No synagogues exist in Botswana. The <a href="/wiki/South_African_Jewish_Board_of_Deputies" title="South African Jewish Board of Deputies">South African Jewish Board of Deputies</a> provides rabbis for the community during the <a href="/wiki/High_Holy_Days" title="High Holy Days">High Holidays</a>. Services are typically held at Jewish homes or at communal centres. Jews in Botswana are buried in non-Jewish cemeteries, as there is no Jewish cemetery in the country. <a href="/wiki/Kosher_food" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosher food">Kosher food</a> is imported from South Africa.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Botswana's Jewish community is one of the youngest Jewish communities in Africa. The community is represented by the Jewish Community of Botswana (JCB), the Botswanan affiliate of the African Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Traditional_African_religions">Traditional African religions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Traditional African religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">Traditional African religions</a> in Botswana include <a href="/wiki/Badimo" title="Badimo">Badimo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modimo" title="Modimo">Modimo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Irreligion">Irreligion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Irreligion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Irreligion is not uncommon among Botswana.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though Christianity predominates, according to 2011 census results, 15% of the country did not identify with any religion.<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freedom_of_religion">Freedom of religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Freedom of religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Botswana" title="Freedom of religion in Botswana">Freedom of religion in Botswana</a></div> <p>The constitution of Botswana protects the freedom of religion and allows missionaries and proselytisers to work freely after they register with the government, but forced conversion is against the law. There is no state religion in Botswana.<sup id="cite_ref-U.S._Department_of_State2016_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.S._Department_of_State2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, the country was scored 4 out of 4 for religious freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Botswana_Council_of_Churches" title="Botswana Council of Churches">Botswana Council of Churches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Catholic_dioceses_in_South_Africa,_Botswana_and_Swaziland" title="List of Catholic dioceses in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland">List of Catholic dioceses in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Botswana" title="Public holidays in Botswana">Public holidays in Botswana</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Botswana&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotuko_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Lotuko mythology">Lotuko mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lozi_mythology" title="Lozi mythology">Lozi mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugbara_mythology" title="Lugbara mythology">Lugbara mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maasai_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Maasai mythology">Maasai mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_mythology" title="Malagasy mythology">Malagasy mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mbuti_mythology" title="Mbuti mythology">Mbuti mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serer_religion" title="Serer religion">Serer religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serer_creation_myth" title="Serer creation myth">Serer creation myth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">Traditional African religions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tumbuka_mythology" title="Tumbuka mythology">Tumbuka mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waaqeffanna" title="Waaqeffanna">Waaqeffanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulu_people#Religion_and_beliefs" title="Zulu people">Zulu religion</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Africa" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa">Sovereign states</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Algeria" title="Religion in Algeria">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Angola" title="Religion in Angola">Angola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Benin" title="Religion in Benin">Benin</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Botswana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Burkina_Faso" title="Religion in Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Burundi" title="Religion in Burundi">Burundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cameroon" title="Religion in Cameroon">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cape_Verde" title="Religion in Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Central_African_Republic" title="Religion in the Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Chad" title="Religion in Chad">Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Comoros" title="Religion in the Comoros">Comoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Djibouti" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Djibouti">Djibouti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Egypt" title="Religion in Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Equatorial_Guinea" title="Religion in Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Eritrea" title="Religion in Eritrea">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Eswatini" title="Religion in Eswatini">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ethiopia" title="Religion in Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Gabon" title="Religion in Gabon">Gabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Gambia" title="Religion in the Gambia">The Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ghana" title="Religion in Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Guinea" title="Religion in Guinea">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Guinea-Bissau" title="Religion in Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ivory_Coast" title="Religion in Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kenya" title="Religion in Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Lesotho" title="Religion in Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Liberia" title="Religion in Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Libya" title="Religion in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Madagascar" title="Religion in Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Malawi" title="Religion in Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mali" title="Religion in Mali">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritania" title="Religion in Mauritania">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritius" title="Religion in Mauritius">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Morocco" title="Religion in Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mozambique" title="Religion in Mozambique">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Namibia" title="Religion in Namibia">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Niger" title="Religion in Niger">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria" title="Religion in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Religion in the Republic of the Congo">Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Rwanda" title="Religion in Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe" title="Religion in São Tomé and Príncipe">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Senegal" title="Religion in Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Seychelles" title="Religion in Seychelles">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sierra_Leone" title="Religion in Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Somalia" title="Religion in Somalia">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Africa" title="Religion in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Sudan" title="Religion in South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sudan" title="Religion in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Tanzania" title="Religion in Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Togo" title="Religion in Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Tunisia" title="Religion in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Uganda" title="Religion in Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zambia" title="Religion in Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zimbabwe" title="Religion in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependencies</a>,<br /> <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_administrative_division" title="Autonomous administrative division">autonomies</a>, and<br /> other territories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Canary_Islands" title="Religion in the Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a> (Spain)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ceuta" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Ceuta">Ceuta</a> (Spain)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Madeira&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Religion in Madeira (page does not exist)">Madeira</a> (Portugal)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mayotte" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Mayotte">Mayotte</a> (France)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Melilla&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Religion in Melilla (page does not exist)">Melilla</a> (Spain)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Puntland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Religion in Puntland (page does not exist)">Puntland</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_R%C3%A9union" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Réunion">Réunion</a> (France)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_the_Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Religion in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (page does not exist)">Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Saint_Helena" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Saint Helena">St. Helena</a> (UK)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Somaliland" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Somaliland">Somaliland</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Western_Sahara" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zanzibar" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Zanzibar">Zanzibar</a> (Tanzania)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"><div>See also: <a href="/wiki/African_diaspora_religions" title="African diaspora religions">African diaspora religions</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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