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 ...

THE discourse on the growth, evolution and universal spread of Christianity must take into account how a provincial religious formation became a universal force. How, in other words, did a religion ...

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 ...

Let me start with a declaration from start: I am a Pentecostal Christian who has often been curious about the trajectory of both mainstream Christianity (be it evangelical or Pentecostal) and African ...

A Nigerian pastor refuses to live his life by this framework—and he wants to help the African church get there too. Godwin Adeboye saw something interesting where residents of Ibadan, a city in ...

The historic relationship between Christianity and imperialism naturally causes grave dilemmas for modern believers. But on at least one celebrated occasion, it was actually a great Christian army ...

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 ...

On the small, barren island of Likoma in Africa’s Lake Nyasa stands a great cathedral. Built by native Anglican converts a century ago, it was long the center of Anglican missionary work in Nyasaland ...

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 ...

Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the Botswana national currency, pula (rain). When tragedies like flooding and ...

(RNS) — When it comes to defending Christianity and religious freedom and opposing abortion, Christian leaders like what they see in Trump. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — President-elect Donald Trump has ...