Religion in the Cook Islands

[3][5][6][7][8][9] In 1821, John Williams of the London Missionary Society landed at Aitutaki and began using Tahitian converts to spread Christianity.

In 1834 the couple returned to Britain to supervise the printing of the New Testament of the Bible in Cook Islands Māori.

Other Christian denominations including Catholicism, Mormonism, Adventism and Pentecostalism have had some success in the Cook Islands as well.

As of November 2024, it was led by Mohammed Azam and had a congregation consisting of a mixture of Cook Islanders, Indonesians, Filipinos, Fijians and Indians[14] In February 2025, Rarotonga Muslim community spokesperson Tatiana Kautai expressed concern about alleged rising Islamophobia in Cook Islands society, the media and social media.

Non-Christian faiths including Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam are found in small numbers mostly among non-indigenous inhabitants.