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  2. Christianity in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the 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.

  3. Catholic Church in Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church in Africa is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See in Rome. Christian activity in Africa began in the 1st century when the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Egypt was formed as one of the four original Patriarchs of the East (the others being Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem).

  4. Christianity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    Christianity is the majority religion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is professed by a majority of the population. According to the 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom, an estimated 48.1% of the population are Protestant (including evangelical Christians and the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth) and 47.3% are Catholic .

  5. Christianity in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    The Syriac Christian missions also served as permanent centers of Christian learning in which Syriac speaking monks finally began to translate the Bible and other religious texts from Greek and Aramaic into Ethiopic so that their Ethiopian converts could actually read Scripture. These translations were vital to the spread of Christianity, no ...

  6. Christianity’s Imprint Remains in a Secularizing Europe - AOL

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    Today in Dispatch Faith, U.K.-based journalist Katja Hoyer (who grew up in socialist East Germany) brings an analytical eye to how cultural Christianity persists in an ever-secularizing Europe ...

  7. Christianity in the Roman Africa province - Wikipedia

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    St. Augustine. The name early African church is given to the Christian communities inhabiting the region known politically as Roman Africa, and comprised geographically somewhat around the area of the Roman Diocese of Africa, namely: the Mediterranean littoral between Cyrenaica on the east and the river Ampsaga (now the Oued Rhumel ()) on the west; that part of it that faces the Atlantic Ocean ...

  8. Multiculturalism and Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The rise of Christianity in the southern hemisphere, especially Africa and Latin America, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is a "grassroots movement" [14] that has generated new forms of Christian theology and worship, [15] and shifted the cultural and geographic focal point of the Church away from the West. [13]

  9. Religion in Africa - Wikipedia

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    The earliest and best known reference to the introduction of Christianity to Africa is mentioned in the Christian Bible's Acts of the Apostles, and pertains to the evangelist Phillip's conversion of an Ethiopian traveller in the 1st century AD. Although the Bible refers to them as Ethiopians, scholars have argued that Ethiopia was a common term ...