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Christianity is a minority religion in Somalia, with around 1,000 practitioners in a population of over eight million inhabitants. Most Christian adherents come from the Bantu minority ethnic group,〔(A study on minorities in Somalia )〕 and belong to the Evangelical and Wesleyan Church of the Nazarene. There is one Catholic diocese for the entire country: the Diocese of Mogadishu. ==Overview== (詳細はRoman Catholic practitioners in Somalia in 2004. This was down from a high of 8,500 adherents at the start of the trusteeship period in 1950, under the Prefecture Apostolic of Benadir of the Vicariate Apostolic of Mogadiscio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmgds.html )〕 Thirty-seven years earlier, in 1913, during the early part of the colonial era, there were virtually no Christians in the Somali territories. Around 100–200 followers existed in the schools and orphanages of the few Catholic missions in the British Somaliland protectorate.〔Charles George Herbermann, ''The Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church'', Volume 14, (Robert Appleton company: 1913), p.139.〕 No Catholic missions are known to have existed in Italian Somaliland during the same period.〔Charles Henry Robinson, ''History of Christian Missions'', (READ BOOKS: 2007), p. 356.〕 However, after WWI Catholicism started to be promoted in "Somalia italiana", as Listowel wrote: In 1928, a Catholic cathedral was built in Mogadishu by order of Cesare Maria De Vecchi, a Catholic governor of "Somalia italiana" who promoted the "Missionari della Consolata" Christianization of Somalian people.〔(The Catholic missionaries of "Consolata" promoted by governor De Vecchi (in Italian) )〕 The cathedral, the biggest in Africa in the 1920s and 1930s, was later damaged during the civil war that began in the 1980s. The Bishop of Mogadishu, Franco Filippini, declared in 1940 that there were about 40,000 Somali Catholics due to the work of missionaries in the rural regions of Juba and Shebelle, but WWII damaged in an irreversible way most of the Catholic missions in Italian Somalia.〔Tripodi, Paolo. ''The Colonial Legacy in Somalia''. p. 66〕 Most were Somali Bantu,〔(Photo of Somali Bantu with a Missionary of the "Consolata" in 1937 )〕 but some thousands were illegitimate sons of Italian soldiers and Somalian girls (who received Italian citizenship when baptized). Anyway, after WWII Catholicism nearly disappeared from Somalia. The Bible was first translated into Somali only in 1979.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Somali-Bible-SOM/ )〕 According to the ''World Christian Encyclopedia'', the Somalia Believers Fellowship, the Somalia Mennonite Mission and the Seventh-day Adventists are present in this country.〔''World Christian Encyclopedia'', (2nd edition), Volume 1, p. 673〕 Somalia is included in the Episcopal Area of the Horn of Africa of the Anglican Diocese of Egypt, though there are no current local congregations.〔(The Episcopal Area of the Horn of Africa )〕 The Adventist Mission indicates that there are no Adventist members in Somalia, and that Christianity in general has seen little growth there.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.adventistmission.org/article.php?id=1364 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christianity in Somalia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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