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January 1981, and adopted by Shias 6 million to 44
the Assembly of Heads of State million) live in the Middle
and Government of the East-North Africa.
Organization of African Unity The Shi'a and their other
(OAU) in Nairobi, Kenya, on aspects are among the most
27 of July 1981, showing the persecuted and coerced
emergence of dissenting religious segments around the
voices, convinced and against a globe.
universal parameter. According to Shia Rights
Meanwhile, among the first Watch agency, reliable source
in the drives of 80 and today, for the United Nations in
we expanded the estimated Washington, USA, the updated
panorama about Islamic Shi'a June 2017 numbers corroborate
aspect through the Pew such statements, showing a
Research Center Forum on small cut in the countries of the
Religion and Public Life: Middle East and Asia in
An overwhelming incidents anti shi la resulting in
majority of Muslims are
Sunnis, while an estimated deaths: Saudi Arabia (3),
10-13% are Shias. This Afghanistan (11), Pakistan
report estimates that there (62), Iran (11) and Iraq (72).
are between 154 million When we talk about the Shi'a
and 200 million Shia community in Brazil, we are
Muslims in the world talking about a community
today. mostly from a migratory flow
Between l 16 million and sírio-libanês 1890 powders to
I47 million Shias live in the South and Southeast of the
Asia, representing about country and especially in post
three-quarters of the Lebanese civil war (1975-
world's Shia population 1980).
(note that Iran is included
in the Asia-Pacific Among the Shi'a majority
region). population, the Iranians do not
Meanwhile, nearly a represent a considerable
quarter of the world's migration, since there is a
