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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.
In South Africa today, 85.3% of South Africans identify as Christians. StatSchriA data has provided that Northern Cape, 97.9%, and Free State, 95.5%, provinces have the highest percentage of Christians. [16] In addition, the General Household Survey has found that 56.4% of people who identify as Christian rapport to church weekly [17]
The first Christian mission at Genadendal, South Africa. In July 1737, the Moravian Brethren send Georg Schmidt to South Africa as a Christian missionary. [5] He began working with the Khoi-Khoi tribe and in 1742, he baptised five Khoi-khoi slaves. The Dutch Reformed Church believed that baptised Christians must be free citizens and could not ...
Angel Television Africa was established in South Africa in 2002 and GOD TV launched across Africa on 31 May of the same year. [31] Marcél Olivier is GOD TV's Regional Director for Africa and heads up the office in Cape Town. Erastus Maina oversees GOD TV's East Africa Region, with an office in Nairobi.
At the time of the channel's suspension, it was the most-viewed Christian ministry on the platform. [17] [18] In January 2024, days after Joshua's sexual abuse scandal was revealed, Emmanuel TV's satellite channel was removed from DStv by MultiChoice, a South African media company as well as from YouTube for a second time. [19]
Christianity arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD; as of 2024, a majority of Africans are Christians. [1] Several African Christians influenced the early development of Christianity and shaped its doctrines, including Tertullian, Perpetua, Felicity, Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Cyprian, Athanasius and Augustine of Hippo.
The issue of racial segregation created a few breakaway churches from the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, the Catholic Apostolic Holy Spirit Church in Zion, created in 1910, Zion Apostolic Faith Mission, created in 1920, which later in 1925, split into the Zion Christian Church which is the largest South African church today. [2]
History of Christianity in South Africa (3 C, 2 P) J. Christianity in Johannesburg (1 C, 11 P) M. Christian missions in South Africa (1 C, 13 P)