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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]
Christianity has been estimated [1] to be growing rapidly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. [85] In Africa, for instance, in 1900, there were only 8.7 million [1] adherents of Christianity; now there are 390 million, [1] and it is expected that by 2025 there will be 600 million Christians in Africa. [1]
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 ...
The Nazareth Baptist Church (Alternatively called "The Nazarite Church" "iBandla lamaNazaretha") is the second largest African initiated church based in South Africa, founded in 1910. [1] It reveres Shembe as a prophet sent by God to restore the teachings of Moses, the prophets, and Jesus. Members are Sabbath-observers and avoid pork, smoking ...
The Catholic Church in South Africa is part of the worldwide Catholic Church composed of the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, of which the South African church is under the spiritual leadership of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference and the pope in Rome.
24 languages. Afrikaans; ... 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 ...
A German pastor, Carl H. Gutsche, baptized J. D. Odendall, who founded the first Dutch-speaking Baptist church in South Africa in 1886. The Baptist Union was founded in 1877 by four English-speaking churches and one German-speaking church. [2] The South African Baptist Missionary Society was formed in 1892. [3]