Question: What percentage of Eritrea is estimated to adhere to the religion widely practiced in the region with the 2nd largest rain-forest in the world?

According to a study made by Pew Research Center, 63% adheres to Christianity and 36% adheres to Islam. According to recent estimates, 50% of the population adheres to Christianity, Islam 48%, while 2% of the population follows other religions including traditional African religion and animism. Since May 2002, the government of Eritrea has officially recognized the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Oriental Orthodox), Sunni Islam, the Eritrean Catholic Church (a Metropolitanate sui juris) and the Evangelical Lutheran church. All other faiths and denominations are required to undergo a registration process. Among other things, the government's registration system requires religious groups to submit personal information on their membership to be allowed to worship. <SEP> during the middle ages, the eritrea region was known as medri bahri ("sea-land"). the name eritrea is derived from the ancient greek name for red sea (ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα erythra thalassa, based on the adjective ἐρυθρός erythros "red"). it was first formally adopted in 1890, with the formation of italian eritrea (colonia eritrea). the territory became the eritrea governorate within italian east africa in 1936. eritrea was annexed by ethiopia in 1953 (nominally within a federation until 1962) and an eritrean liberation front formed in 1960. eritrea gained independence following the 1993 referendum, and the name of the new state was defined as state of eritrea in the 1997 constitution. [citation needed] <SEP> Countries in Southeast Asia practice many different religions. Buddhism is predominant in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and Singapore. Ancestor worship and Confucianism are also widely practised in Vietnam and Singapore. Christianity is predominant in the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, East Malaysia and East Timor. The Philippines has the largest Roman Catholic population in Asia. East Timor is also predominantly Roman Catholic due to a history of Portuguese rule. Islam is the most widely practised religion in Southeast Asia, numbering approximately 240 million adherents which translate to about 40% of the entire population, with majorities in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and in Southern Philippines with Indonesia as the largest and most populated Muslim country around the world. <SEP> the prevalence of circumcision is the percentage of males in a given population who have been circumcised. the rates vary widely by country, from 1% in japan, to 2% in spain and sweden, to 58% in the united states, to more than 80% in muslim - majority countries. worldwide it is estimated that 25% to 33% of males are circumcised, by various sources. <SEP> Northern Vietnam and the Myanmar Himalayas are the only regions in Southeast Asia that feature a subtropical climate, which has a cold winter with snow. The majority of Southeast Asia has a wet and dry season caused by seasonal shift in winds or monsoon. The tropical rain belt causes additional rainfall during the monsoon season. The climate in Southeast Asia is mainly tropical–hot and humid all year round with plentiful rainfall. The rain forest is the second largest on earth (with the Amazon being the largest). An exception to this type of climate and vegetation is the mountain areas in the northern region, where high altitudes lead to milder temperatures and drier landscape. Other parts fall out of this climate because they are desert like.