African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claremore Christian School presented a living history exhibit Feb. 27 about 10 Africans who made significant contributions to ...

Nigerian priest Moses Iorapuu and Solidarity with the Persecuted Church president Steven Wagner discuss Christian persecution ...

Christianity in Africa entered a new phase last week: for the first time in the two centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent’s jungles, veldts and hills, the ...

Everyone agrees that the great shifts in the social geography of Christianity over the past half century have been the redistribution of demographic weight southward, and the inundation of the ...

BUEA, Cameroon – A leading African prelate has said that dwindling numbers in western Churches can be reversed if they adopt the small Christian communities approach practiced by the Church in Africa.

Introduction: Presence and impact of Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity in Africa / Martin Linhardt -- "Stretching out hands to God " : origins and development of ...

1799 Church Missionary Society founded. 1804 British and Foreign Bible Society founded. 1840s Roman Catholic missionary societies The Congregation of the Holy Ghost and the White Fathers founded. 1886 ...