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The DRC decided to divide its mission work into a "home" and "foreign" mission. The first covered the Cape region, the second all the other provinces of South Africa, including Namibia. In each province separate churches for blacks and coloureds were formed. The Free State had its own mission church already in 1910.
Christianity is the dominant religion in South Africa, with almost 80% of the population in 2001 professing to be Christian.No single denomination predominates, with mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents.
Roy Campbell, South African poet, Catholic convert, and critic of Stalinism, Nazism, and Apartheid. Ernest Cole (photographer), South Africa's first black freelance photographer. Blessed Benedict Daswa, a Catholic convert from the Lemba people. First South African Blessed & Martyr; Christopher Hope, South African journalist, playwright, and poet.
Religion in South Africa is dominated by various branches of Christianity, which collectively represent around 85% of the country's total population. South Africa is a secular state with a diverse religious population. Its constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Many religions are represented in the ethnic and regional diversity of the ...
Category: South African Christians. ... Download as PDF; ... Members of Christian churches, either past or present, in South Africa.
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The Presbyterian Church of Africa was founded in 1898 by the Reverend Phambani Jeremiah Mzimba, who broke from the Church of Scotland. [1] He broke away because of misunderstanding between the black and white clergy. [2] He was born in Ngqakayi, and his father was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church. Mzimba become a pastor, and was ordained in ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... South African Christians (13 C, 51 P) C. Christianity in Cape Town (3 C, 4 P) ... Pages in category ...