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I started this page, with its associated Category, to provide a historical survey of Christianity in Africa as a whole. This can have links to articles on Christianity in different regions, or different denominations or aspects of Christian history, but local details should be kept in other places. SteveH 13:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Links/crossover with Christianity and politics and Religion and politics might be appropriate (eg how do the various religions interact in Africa) Jackiespeel 17:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

At one point of this article, it says that Christianity is over 50% of the population of Africa, but at another point, it says it is almost 40% of the population. Could someone please find out which is the correct figure and fix this. Thank you.

This page specifically defines itself as Subsaharan afica, but then goes on to refer to the Egyptian Coptic Church. There is nothing remotely Subsaharan about Egypt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.61.18.132 (talk) 14:04, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Christianity in Africa

Christianity as religion is based on the life and works of Jesus, who was a Jewish teacher and a prophet.According to this religion his crucifixion is the springboard to the salvation plan of God.The spread of the religion heavily relies upon the Holy Roman empire and specifically during the time of Constantine who made Christianity a state religion.In Africa the religion began with st. mark who came as an evangelist to Alexandria, at the same time we had the famous African christian apostle Apollos who was very instrumental on the same.

The first Egyptian converts came from the Jewish community this because Christianity was a Jewish affair and they belonged to it.The fact that Egypt was now under the Romans and their religion was undermined they quickly embraced the new religion .Scholars have pointed out that this new religion (Christianity) indeed resembled the Egyptian religion in the fact that they used to worship pharaoh and now they were told of one Jesus to be worshiped so there was a connection.

Alexandria and Antioch become centers for creative christian theological centers.AD 313 Constantine legalized Christianity making it a state religion ending persecution.Its during this time that some believers developed the habits of going into the desert to pray(hermits).Constantine was nevertheless faced with a major problem as Jesus unlike Muhammad did not leave behind a written document , hence the state had to collect all the christian material and declare them as divine and inspired but the Roman Christians rejected them as heretical.Emperor Constantine should be remembered for his involvement with African affairs especially with the Nice an council of 325 which was aimed at solving a dispute between the Bishop of Alexandria and a theologian called Arius.The argument here was based on the issue of trinity this led to the orthodox doctrine of the trinity.it is this argument that led to the the Ecumenical council of chelcedon condemning the Alexandrian theology as heretical since they did not understand the nature of Jesus Christ.

Alexander the Great conquered THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE and took over Egypt, the effect of Greek can not be under estimated since the Greek are known of their philosophy.at some point st. Augustine complained that the Greece of philosophy was corrupting the Jerusalem of faith.its worthy noting that its during this time that the Coptic Christians and the Gnostic Christians come out.This two groups were the only groups of Christianity that developed and got Americanized such that the still stand ever since.

Christianity in Africa was quickly counter attacked by Islam which was rampant and more likable.never the less Coptic and gnostic Christianities remained unshaken by Islam.

FYI: Alexander the Great conquered Egypt many hundreds of years before Christ was born.

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I think this article is quoting a much too large of a number for Christian adherents. As far as I am aware, only 40% of Africa is Christian, and 45% of it is Muslim. The sources need to be checked, they are internally inconsistent.

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The World Book Encyclopedia

On the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Africa text reads "The World Book Encyclopedia has estimated that in 2002 Christians formed 40% of the continent's population, with Muslims forming 45%" on this page it says "The World Book Encyclopedia has estimated that in 2002 Christians formed 80% of the continent's population, with Muslims forming 20%". There are no citations on either. 80.0.27.240 (talk) 14:29, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned references in Christianity in Africa

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Christianity in Africa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Global Christianity":

From Christian population growth: ANALYSIS (2011-12-19). "Global Christianity". Pewforum.org. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
From Protestantism: Analysis (19 December 2011). "Global Christianity". Pewforum.org. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
From Christianity: Analysis (19 December 2011). "Global Christianity". Pew Research Center. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
From Christianity in Asia: ANALYSIS (19 December 2011). "Global Christianity". Pewforum.org. Retrieved 17 August 2012.

Reference named "pewforum1":

From Christian denomination: "Pewforum: Christianity (2010)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-05. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
From Protestantism by country: "Christian Traditions" (Web). Pew Research Center. December 19, 2011. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
From Protestantism: "Pewforum: Grobal Christianity" (PDF). Retrieved 14 May 2014.
From Christian population growth: "Pewforum: Christianity (2010)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
From Eastern Orthodoxy by country: "Pewforum: Christianity (2010)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-05. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
From Christianity by country: "Pewforum: Christianity (2010)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
From Christianity: "Pewforum: Christianity (2010)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

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Sare

Dare 197.229.1.159 (talk) 20:32, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

POV problems (on North Africa)

There are some unsurprising and not particularly subtle POV problems in the article, at least with regards to North African history under Islamic rule, which has also encouraged some incompetent POV editing in the lead. A number of sources at the beginning of the "After the Muslim conquest of Eastern Roman North Africa" section were cited to support a general, uncontextualized statement on killings and church demolitions, when in fact all the substantial sources refer to the reign of al-Hakim specifically, who is universally noted as an atypical ruler of the time (in more ways than one). In another case, a very relevant article that addresses many useful points ([1]) was cited with a modified title to make it appear more supportive of the in-line wording. Also, as tends to happen with these kinds of articles, the quite rich internal history of Christian communities in the Islamic world (such as the Copts in the case of Africa, the expansion of the Armenian church to Egypt under the Fatimids, etc) is almost entirely omitted, aside from mentioning some persecutions, making it look like they barely existed except to be persecuted every now and then. I've cleaned some of this up (in this edit), and then added some basic details from scholarly sources, but this is barely scratching the surface of reliable sources and this isn't where I plan to spend my time. If editors take the topic seriously and respect WP:NPOV, there is a lot of content that could be added. R Prazeres (talk) 17:11, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Togo now also has a christian plurality among its citizens

In 2020, the latest year with statistics avaiable, 48 percent of Togo people were Christians, 33 percent folk religion members and 18 percent islamic. Therefore in every single african country either Christianity or Islam is the single most adhered religion, with Togo being the latest and last one to join the club. 93.206.56.3 (talk) 03:50, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Therefore, the Ethiopian church community is globally unique in that it wasn't Christianised through European missionaries, but was highly independent and itself spread missionaries throughout the rest of Africa prior to European Christians contact with the continent. "

What about armenia? Sj2001 (talk) 14:21, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

World Population review.com

It is widely seen as a questionable source. The data seem to come from TheGlobalEconomy.com I don't think this is reliable or from cline center which does seem reliable but I only have access to this document. Rolluik (talk) 01:40, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]