Christianity Today

Kwame Bediako Still Defines the Debate on African Culture and Christianity

Seven leaders weigh in on the late Ghanaian scholar’s provocative legacy 20 years after his best-known book. What Luther and Calvin are for evangelical Christians globally, Kwame Bediako is for many ...
insider.si.edu

Christianity in Africa and the African diaspora : the appropriation of a scattered heritage / edited by Afe Adogame, Roswith Gerloff, Klaus Hock

Political or spiritual partition : the impact of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Christian missions in Africa / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Ecclesiastical cartography and the invisible continent / Jonathan J ...
Ancient Origins

Toddlers with Facial Tattoos: Christianity's Impact on Nubian Body Art

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...
New York Post

Can Africa save Christianity if the West gives up on faith?

The United States is a Christian-majority nation -- but the majority here is dwindling, with only 64% of Americans now identifying as Christian, according to Pew Research Center data. Shutterstock A ...
Calvin College

Under the Radar, Written Out, or Silenced Voices? African Women in World Christianity between Spiritual Power, Agency, and Church Leadership

Please join the DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION for this special lecture given by Dr. Damaris Parsitau, Director of the Nagel Institute. Drawing upon years of ethnographic research and robust literature review ...
insider.si.edu

The Routledge companion to Christianity in Africa edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba

Part I. Selected historical perspectives. Christianity in North Africa / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- Christianity in Egypt: the Coptic Church / Youhanna Nessim Youssef -- Early Christian discourses and ...
The Heritage Foundation

Christians in Africa: Growth, Persecution, and America’s Role in Their Protection

Ned Rauch-Mannino is a Visiting Fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for National Security. Christianity is expanding on the African continent and wields great ...
Christianity Today

Black History at the Smithsonian Can’t Be Told with Half-Truths

No institution is above scrutiny, but the Trump administration’s planned overhaul could obscure the work of God in American history. When the National Museum of African American History & Culture ...
The Citizen

The history behind new Christmas clothes in African communities

Explore the history behind South Africa’s tradition of wearing new Christmas clothes, from Christian symbolism to migrant ...
The Conversation

Christianity is changing in South Africa as pentecostal and indigenous churches grow – what’s behind the trend

Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Studies ...
Time

Music: African Christianity

Christianity in Africa entered a new phase last week: for the first time in the two centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent’s jungles, veldts and hills, the ...
Religion News Service

Ghana's plans for a national cathedral are mired in controversy and delays − but also reflect religion's strong role in the nation's identity

(The Conversation) — With modern borders drawn up by colonial powers, some African governments have turned to religion to try to forge national unity since independence. (The Conversation) — Ghana’s ...