Calvin College

The Changing Face of Christianity

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : the appropriation of a scattered heritage / edited by Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock

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 ...
The Conversation

Christianity is changing in South Africa as pentecostal and indigenous churches grow – what’s behind the trend

Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Studies ...
New York Post

Can Africa save Christianity if the West gives up on faith?

The United States is a Christian-majority nation -- but the majority here is dwindling, with only 64% of Americans now identifying as Christian, according to Pew Research Center data. Shutterstock A ...
Catholic News Agency

Family life, ‘bonding together’ behind spread of Christianity in Africa, U.S. bishop says

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 ...