Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - 2,421 individuals officially declared embracing Islam as a religion in Religious Courts in Jordan in the past five years from 2005-2010.

A report issued recently by the Supreme Judge Department (Qadi Al Qudah) found that the number of individuals embracing Islam in Jordan declined in 2010 over 34 percent, with a total number of 395 that declared their embracing the religion in Religious Courts.

The numbers had also been on a decline in 2008, compared with 2006, reaching a decline of 18.3 percent.

The largest number of individuals embracing Islam in Jordan in 2010 was in the capital Amman (290), followed by (40) in Irbid, (27) in Zarqa, and rest in various governorates, with the exception of the southern governorate of Tafileh, which did not record any official declaration of embracing Islam in any of its Religious Courts, Jordan News Agency 'Petra' reported.