The State Department's 2023 report on Senegal, a constitutionally secular state that is 97 percent Muslim, records direct government financial and material assistance to religious groups for maintaining places of worship and underwriting events, naming government-funded infrastructure to the Mouride holy city of Touba and the Great Mosque of Kaolack, support for the Grand Magal and Gamou pilgrimages and the Hajj, and Ministry of Education partial funding of 354 registered Catholic schools and 1,200 registered Franco-Arab schools that meet national standards.
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AuthorUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious Freedom
PublisherUS Department of State
URLhttps://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/senegal/
Source TypeGovernment report
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Reliability Tier1
The United States' own State Department annual country report on religious freedom, the strongest available form for a fact about a country's funding of religious institutions, hence the top tier. Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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