Religion in Lesotho

[5] The non-Christian people primarily subscribe to traditional African religions, with small groups of Muslims, Hindus and Baha'is.

[7] The Catholic population is served by the province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Maseru and his three suffragans (the bishops of Leribe, Mohale's Hoek and Qacha's Nek), who also form the national episcopal conference.

Later missionaries such as Henry Callaway, as well as anthropologists, consider those initial reports as unreliable and mythical, rather than a historical or true representation of the traditional religion of the Lesotho people.

The initial efforts aimed at gaining converts as well as ending the practice of polygyny where old men paid a bride price to marry young girls.

Ancestor spirits called Badimo worship practices were a significant part of the Sotho community, along with rituals such as rainmaking dance.