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 ...

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 requirement makes it difficult for religious minorities to get jobs, justice, and opportunities. Advocates are pushing ...

He was a Christian of no uncertain stamp. He managed the difficult feat of successfully integrating his scholarship and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human rights groups say the world must pay more attention to the assault on one of Africa’s oldest Christian communities.

Christianity's position in Africa continues to evolve, responding to the continent's changing social, political, and economic landscapes. Business Insider Africa presents the top 10 African countries ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world's Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe's "widespread Christian disaffiliation" -- with Christians declining as ...

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 ...