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The mission almost dissolved in the next year when most of the workers either died or resigned, but Peter Cameron Scott's vision of the network of mission stations extending to the centre of Africa has ultimately been fulfilled with churches established throughout East Africa, and in most other countries of the continent.
This is a list of Christian missions in Africa. 4africa; Africa Inland Mission; Algiers Mission Band; Anglican Frontier Missions; Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa; Basel Mission; Church Mission Society; Cowley Fathers; International Missionaries for Christ; London Missionary Society; Mission Africa; Mission Aviation Fellowship ...
Missionaries of Africa; Missionaries of the Poor; Missionary Oblates; Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate; Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa; Missionary Society of St. Paul; Missionhurst; Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, PEMS or, in French, Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris; Pontifical Mission Societies; Salesian of ...
William Henry Sheppard (March 8, 1865 – November 25, 1927) was one of the earliest African Americans to become a missionary for the Presbyterian Church.He spent 20 years in Africa, primarily in and around the Congo Free State, and is best known for his efforts to publicize the atrocities committed against the Kuba and other Congolese peoples by King Leopold II's Force Publique.
The White Fathers (French: Pères Blancs), officially known as the Missionaries of Africa (Latin: Missionarii Africae), and abbreviated MAfr, [1] are a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life of pontifical right (for men). They were founded in 1868 by Charles-Martial Allemand-Lavigerie, who was then the Archbishop of Algiers. [2]
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The Universities' Mission to Central Africa (c.1857 - 1965) was a missionary society established by members of the Anglican Church within the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin. It was firmly in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church, and the first to devolve authority to a bishop in the field rather than to a home ...