Christianity
Sudan was predominantly Christian at the time of the arrival of Islam in the seventh and eighth century. The indigenous Nubian Coptic christians continued to compose a substantial portion of the regions's population up until the nineteenth century, when most were forced to convert to Islam under the Mahdist state (1881-1898). The Coptic Orthodox Church's influence is still marginally present in Sudan, with several hundred thousand remaining adherents.
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“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
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