Antigua And Barbuda

 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

A. THE COUNTRY

The state of Antigua and Barbuda are three islands in the Caribbean.
Antigua is volcanic and Barbuda is coralline.  The government is a
Parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy (Queen Elizabeth
II).  Officially, Tourism is the mainstay.  Questionable activities also
play a major part in the informal economy, but the government works to
control and remove these elements.

B. THE PEOPLE

The population is ~88,600 and the official languages English and English
Creole.  ~83.8% are African Caribbean, ~15.8% Euro-American, ~0.3% Other
(South Asian).

C. RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY/PENTECOSTALISM

Antiguans are almost all Christian by background, but complacency
prevails.
~92.51% claim to be Christian, ~3.7% Ethnoreligionist, ~2.1%
Non-religious, ~0.99% Baha’i, 0.6% Muslim, ~0.1% Hindu.
In the Christian category:
~33,88% are Anglican, ~38.81% Protestant, ~12.6% Unaffiliated, ~9.37%
Catholic, ~1.47% Independent.
Evangelicals represent ~19.9% of the population.
Charismatics represent ~13.9% and of those ~8.3% are Pentecostals.
 

Donna Siemens

 

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org

Operation World, Jason Mandryk. Colorado Springs: Biblica Publishing, 2010.

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