The distribution of the population by the various religious denominations in the region is nearly the
same as the total country, except traditional religion and no religion that exchange the order.
Christianity (70.8%) has the largest following, while Islam (16.1%) and no religion (7.8%) are the
significant others. Another change of order different from the national is that Catholics (22.6%)
outnumber Pentecostals (20.8%). Brong Ahafo has a strong Catholic legacy, with many Catholic
institutions including 7 hospitals in 7 districts. It is therefore no surprise that the Church chose Fiapre
in the Sunyani District for the establishment of the first Catholic University in the country. Large
followers of Christianity are in all districts. Over four-fifths of the population in Berekum (87.4%),
Jaman (83.9%), Sunyani (80.9%) and Dormaa (80.3%) are Christians. The protestant churches (28.6%)
have the largest following in Berekum, followed by the Pentecostal (28.0%).
Pentecostals outnumber Catholics in eight districts, the most prominent being Sunyani where the
difference is more than 10 percentage points. Jaman has the largest proportion of Catholics, where
nearly two out of every five people are Catholics. Though more than half of the population in
Atebubu (50.5%), Kintampo (51.4%) and Sene (56.6%) profess to be Christians, the proportion of
Christians in these districts is low compared to the other districts.
Islam is practised mainly in Kintampo (29.7%) and Atebubu (24.4%), where Moslems outnumber the
two most professed Christian denominations, Catholics (21.4%) and Pentecostals (17.6%). The
Moslems are mainly Mole-Dagbon who are quite a substantial group in the districts. Techiman
(20.7%) and Wenchi (20.0%) also have a sizeable number of Moslems, though Catholics outnumber
them. Islam (6.1%) and traditional religion (10.6%) are least practised in Berekum. Traditional religion
is most practised in Sene (18.8%), followed by Atebubu (15.7%) and Kintampo (10.0%). Sene also has
the largest proportion professing no religion (13.6%). Traditional religion ranks second after
Pentecostal while no religion ranks fourth after Catholic in the district. Nkoranza also has more than
one tenth (11.6%) of the population professing no religion. The proportion of females professing the
Christian faith (73.5%) is higher than males (68.2%) in the region, in all districts in the region and total
country. Apart from Catholics in Sunyani and Berekum where the proportion of males is higher than
females, and Sene where the proportion of male Pentecostals is higher than females, the proportion
female is larger than male in all three major Christian denominations in all districts. On the other
hand, the proportion of males professing Islam, traditional and no religion, in all districts of the
region, is higher than females.
