There are a wide variety of active faiths. In addition to the dominant Catholic Church and the Pentecostal Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Church, Lutheran Church, Reformed Evangelical Church, Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Anglican Church, Methodist Church, and the Patriarch of Antioch Orthodox Church also are active. The Mormons are active, and there is a Unification Church. Other faiths include Judaism, Islam, and the Baha'i faith. Members of all major faiths are concentrated in the capital, with the Catholic, Evangelical, and Pentecostal churches also active in other regions of the country.
Foreign missionaries operate freely, and many priests are of foreign origin.
Schools are required to offer religious education twice a week, on an optional basis, through middle school. It is mandatory to teach the creed requested by parents, although enforcement is sometimes lax. In addition to Catholic events, government officials attend major Protestant and Jewish religious and other ceremonies. New President Lagos, for example, attended Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in early May, along with the Defense and Interior Ministers. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom in the period covered by this report.