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Much of the recent Christian growth in Africa is now due to indigenous African missionary work and evangelism and high birth rates, rather than European missionaries. Christianity in Africa shows tremendous variety, from the ancient forms of Oriental Orthodox Christianity in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Eritrea to the newest African-Christian ...
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]
The White fathers contacted the Mill Hill Mission in England to send in the British Catholic Fathers to remove Kabaka Mwanga's doubts. [3] In 1895, Bishop Henry Hanlon from the Mill Hill Mission arrived in Uganda and he was given Nsambya Hill by Kabaka Mwanga. [3] The Mill Hill missionaries spread Christianity in the Tooro region.
Historians have traditionally looked at Christian missionaries in one of two ways. The first church historians to catalogue missionary history provided hagiographic descriptions of their trials, successes, and sometimes even martyrdom. Missionaries were thus visible saints, exemplars of ideal piety in a sea of persistent savagery.
Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for Woman's Christian Temperance Union; David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa; Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China; Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 to 1935; Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa
Joseph Booth (1851 in Derby, England – 1932) was an English missionary working in British Central Africa (present-day Malawi) and South Africa.In his 30s, Booth abandoned his career as a businessman and, for the rest of his life, he undertook missionary work for several Christian denominations including Baptist, Seventh Day Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches, and he was appointed a ...
Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler. Krapf played an important role in exploring East Africa with Johannes Rebmann. They were the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya with the help of Akamba who dwelled at its slopes and Kilimanjaro.
Christian missionaries in Zimbabwe (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Christian missionaries in Africa" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.