Why The Future Of The World’s Largest Religion Is Female — And African

(OPINION) Women make up the majority of Christians today. One of the most common refrains about the church in Africa is that it is majority female. But more precise data about African women’s contributions and religious identities is lacking.

Africa, OpinionGina ZurloMarch 28, 2022Gina Zurlo, global Christianity, Christianity in Africa, Pew research, Africa, African Christianity, women in Christianity, women in the churchComment

West African Christians face Islamic terror as US weighs troop withdrawals

(OPINION) West Africa’s Christians are suffering extraordinary levels of violence at the hands of radical Islamist killers, while the Pentagon is deliberating withdrawing troops from the region.

African faith groups condemned U.N. population conference for its abortion agenda

“Africans are being blackmailed: if you want development aid, you have to embrace abortion,” one pro-life Christian said.

Africa, NewsTom OsanjoNovember 18, 2019Tom Osanjo, UNFPA, abortion, reproductive rights, sexual health, women and girls rights, child marriage, African Christianity, Kenyatta, secondary feature, Secondary feature, Secondary Feature, Christianity Comment

Mourning the death of John Samuel Mbiti, ‘father of modern African theology’

There is one person’s body of work that came to define outsiders’ views on African religion more than any other in the past 50 years: Prof. John Samuel Mbiti, a Christian philosopher, Anglican minister and writer from Kenya.

Africa, Religion, OpinionTom OsanjoOctober 11, 2019Tom Osanjo, Kenya, John Samuel Mbiti, African theology, African Christianity, Center for Early African Christianity at Yale, Kenyatta, Secondary Feature, Christianity, AnglicanComment

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