Christianity may be dying in Europe, but it’s growing by leaps and bounds in Africa and elsewhere in the Global South. We traditionalist Western Christians take comfort in this, but Damian ...

Esther Okoloeze, a Nigerian social entrepreneur and student of Vera Alex Coaching Company, is establishing a creative hub for ...

Here, we look at the three previous African popes - and how they got Christians to celebrate Easter Sunday and St Valentine's Day. All three have been recognised in the Church as saints.

Although Christians bear the brunt of the persecution, in most African countries, only a handful benefit from the current strife. An end to religious persecution would be a gain for the vast majority.

In the first Christian millennium, Aksum ruled a sizable empire that spanned the Red Sea, and it accepted the new faith around the time that Constantine was ruling in Rome. The sheer range of ...

Therefore, leaving Christianity for a traditional African religion exhibits a lack of understanding of the richness of Christian theology and our enslaved ancestors’ connection to the faith.

On one hand, Africa is the zone of Christianity’s greatest growth. It is already the world’s most populous Christian continent, with slightly more Christians today than there are in North ...

Classical African Christianity, claims Oden, has been ignored — or treated as something other than African. Augustine, Athanasius, Tertullian, and others have been treated as Europeans in disguise.

Already in the 1880s, some African Christians were defecting from the missionary churches that were so closely affiliated with the ruling White empires. Soon, especially in South Africa, many of the ...

The service resembled Pentecostal Christianity, a movement that originated in the U.S. and has swept Africa in the last few decades. But the participants weren’t Christians.

On his medical missions to Africa, Dr. Lawrence Czer has dealt with poverty, lack of... Doctor finds 'practical Christianity' in Africa SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...