Editing Marshall Islands (section)

===Religion===
{{Main|Religion in the Marshall Islands}}
[[File:Marshall Islands PICT0669 (4776527881).jpg|thumb|Christians in the Marshall Islands]]

At the September 2021 census, approximately 96.2% of the population identified with one of fourteen [[Christian denomination]]s in the Marshall Islands. The denominations with more than 1,000 adherents included the [[United Church of Christ - Congregational in the Marshall Islands]] (47.9%), the [[Assemblies of God]] (14.1%), the [[Catholic Church]] (9.3%), [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Marshall Islands|the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (5.7%), the Full Gospel Church of the Marshall Islands (5%), and Bukot nan Jesus (3%). 

The remainder of denominations primarily included Protestant churches as well as [[Jehovah's Witnesses]]. 1,128 people, or 2.7% of respondents identified as belonging to a religion other than one of the fourteen denominations listed on the census form. 444 people, or 1.1% of respondents claimed to be [[Irreligion|irreligious]].<ref name="2021census"/> Majuro also has a [[Baháʼí Faith in the Marshall Islands|Baháʼí community]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carucci |first1=Laurence Marshall |date=2020 |title=The Shifting Nature of Ritual Practices in Marshall Islanders' Christianity |journal=Journal of Ritual Studies |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=15–16 |jstor=48653330}}</ref> and a [[Islam in the Marshall Islands|Muslim community]]. The country's [[Baet-Ul-Ahad Mosque|sole mosque]] is aligned with the [[Ahmadiyya]] movement.<ref>{{cite news |last=Raj |first=Ali |date=July 11, 2019 |title=Driven from Pakistan, Ahmadi Muslims find paradise in the Marshall Islands |url=https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3006385/driven-pakistan-ahmadi-muslims-find-paradise-marshall-islands |work=[[South China Morning Post]] |location=Hong Kong |access-date=October 6, 2023 |archive-date=October 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011063615/https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3006385/driven-pakistan-ahmadi-muslims-find-paradise-marshall-islands |url-status=live }}</ref>

Father A. Erdland,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FhilQymfgykC&q=Father+A.+Erdland+marshall+islands |title=Annals of the Propagation of the Faith |date=1910 |publisher=Society for the Propagation of the Faith. |language=en |access-date=October 30, 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407131243/https://books.google.com/books?id=FhilQymfgykC&q=Father+A.+Erdland+marshall+islands |url-status=live }}</ref> a Catholic priest of the [[Missionaries of the Sacred Heart]] of Hiltrup (German Empire, called in German ''Herz-Jesu-Missionare'' and in Latin ''Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis''), lived in [[Jaluit Atoll|Jaluit]] between 1904 and 1914. After doing considerable research on Marshallese culture and language, he published a 376-page [[monograph]] on the islands in 1914. Father H. Linckens,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Spennemann |first=Dirk R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZkfAQAAMAAJ&q=Father+H.+Linckens+marshall+islands |title=Cultural Resource Management Plan for Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands: Management plan |date=1990 |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Territorial and Insular Affairs |language=en |access-date=October 30, 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407131242/https://books.google.com/books?id=AZkfAQAAMAAJ&q=Father+H.+Linckens+marshall+islands |url-status=live }}</ref> another Sacred Heart missionary, visited the Marshall Islands in 1904 and 1911 for several weeks. In 1912, he published a small work on Catholic missionary activities and the people of the Marshall Islands. The Catholics are under the responsibility of the [[Apostolic Prefecture of the Marshall Islands]] (''Praefectura Apostolica Insularum Marshallensium''),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marshall Islands (Prefecture Apostolic) [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmars.html |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org |archive-date=October 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028084057/https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmars.html |url-status=live }}</ref> with headquarters at the [[Cathedral of the Assumption, Majuro|Cathedral of the Assumption]] in Majuro, which was created by Pope [[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]] in 1993 through the papal [[Papal bull|bull]] ''Quo expeditius''.