Editing Demographics of Sudan (section)

==Religion==
{{Main|Religion in Sudan}}
{{Further|Islam in Sudan|Christianity in Sudan}}
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|title=Religion in Sudan<ref name=CWF>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html?countryName=Sudan&countryCode=SU&regionCode=af&#SU |title=Religion in Sudan according to the CIA World Factbook |access-date=2015-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170036/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html?countryName=Sudan&countryCode=SU&regionCode=af&#SU |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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In Sudan, 97% of the population adheres to Islam, with the overwhelming majority being adherents of the [[Sunni]] branch and the [[Maliki]] school of [[Islamic jurisprudence]].<ref name="Islam in Sudan1">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.sd.undp.org/sudan%20overview.htm
 |title       = Sudan Overview
 |publisher   = UNDP Sudan
 |access-date  = 2 April 2013
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120605132439/http://www.sd.undp.org/sudan%20overview.htm
 |archive-date = 5 June 2012
}}</ref> The remainder of the population follows either [[animist]] and indigenous beliefs or Christianity, especially in [[Khartoum]] and in southern regions of the country bordering [[South Sudan]].

Christians in Sudan which are refugees or immigrants from the south belong to various churches including the [[Roman Catholic Church]], small [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church|Melkite]] and [[Maronite Church|Maronite]] communities in the north, as well as [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]] followers in the [[Episcopal Church of the Sudan|Episcopal Church of Sudan]] and the recently formed Reformed Episcopal Church. There are significant but long-established groups of [[Coptic Orthodox Church|Coptic Orthodox]] and [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] Christians in Khartoum and other northern cities.
[[File:Tarawih prayers in Ramadan Siadah Sanhory mosque.JPG|thumb|260px|Men praying at the Sidah Sanhory Mosque, in [[Khartoum]]]]
There are also [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church|Ethiopian]] and [[Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church|Eritrean Orthodox]] communities in Khartoum and eastern Sudan, largely made up of refugees and migrants from the past few decades. Other Christian groups with smaller followings in the country include the Africa Inland Church, the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]], the Sudan Church of Christ, the Sudan Interior Church, [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], the Sudan Pentecostal Church, the [[Sudan Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] (in the North).

Religious identity plays a role in the country's political divisions. Northern and western Muslims have dominated the country's political and economic system since independence. The NCP draws much of its support from [[Islamists]], [[Salafis]]/[[Wahhabis]] and other conservative Arab Muslims in the north. The [[Ummah|Umma]] Party has traditionally attracted Arab followers of the Ansar sect of Sufism as well as non-Arab Muslims from Darfur and Kordofan.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

The [[Democratic Unionist Party (Sudan)|Democratic Unionist Party]] (DUP) includes both Arab and non-Arab Muslims in the north and east, especially those in the Khatmia [[Sufi]] sect.{{cn|date=April 2023}}