A yearslong effort to convince Washington of religious persecution is shifting foreign policy toward the West African nation, ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, religious observers say, with the late pontiff’s mission of hope and mercy inspiring fervor among the continent’s young people in visits to nations ...

Studies show that South Africa is one of only three countries in the world where religious participation has increased in recent years. The other two countries are Italy and the US. The 2022 Census ...

Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J ...

JOHANNESBURG: Millions of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), spending Christmas under the reported threat of persecution, kidnapping, sexual violence and in some cases, death from Islamist ...

The rapid spread of Christianity in Africa is due to its people’s inherent structures of community life as well as the “bonding together” of community members, according to Bishop John Patrick Dolan ...

Apologetics in Africa offers resources to both believers and skeptics where the church remains largely unequipped to respond to attacks on their faith. For most Africans, there is no dichotomy between ...

Part I. Selected historical perspectives. Christianity in North Africa / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- Christianity in Egypt: the Coptic Church / Youhanna Nessim Youssef -- Early Christian discourses and ...

This volume brings together seven empirically grounded contributions by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. The authors explore the social impact of religious innovation ...

In 1900 there were about 9 million Christians in all of Africa. By the year 2000 that number had grown to 380 million. Calvin College provost and professor of history Joel Carpenter says that Africa ...