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 ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, religious observers say, with the late pontiff’s mission of hope and mercy inspiring fervor among the continent’s young people in visits to nations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christianity remained the world’s largest religion in 2025, with over 2.2 billion followers spread across continents While its origins trace back to the Middle East, the faith’s demographic heart has ...

Studies show that South Africa is one of only three countries in the world where religious participation has increased in recent years. The other two countries are Italy and the US. The 2022 Census ...

Scholarship on Christian engagement of Islam in Africa is expanding, and many Africans, especially Christian theologians, are taking interest. The growth in scholarship on Islam and its varied ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baptism ceremony in the Mbashe river in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images Water is a ...

New research spotlights what the continent’s believers (and those worldwide) are missing. Want to learn from an African Christian leader? There’s Augustine, Cyprian, and many other African theologians ...

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 ...