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He said his Masses in traditional Latin. He delivered his weighty policy pronouncements in badly accented French to huge but quiet audiences. With a pontifical smile, he watched spectacular, sun-drenched displays of faith and affection. But not till the fourth day of his dramatic pilgrimage across the continent did...
A pilgrimage to a continent where Christianity is flourishing if
Even so, the Pope is scheduled to visit countries with a combined population of 71 million in a continent with 460 million inhabitants, 53 million of them Roman Catholics. Christianity as a whole in Africa is growing by 6 million people, or more than 5% a year, its largest numerical...
John Paul calls Africa a continent "ripe for harvest." But like nearly everything else in Africa, Christianity, and especially Catholic Christianity, is marked by breathtaking contradictions, dramatic paradoxes, maddening diversity. Africa is a continent whose people speak more than 800 languages. They suffer from bloody national divisions, as well as...
But while the Catholic Church, and conventional Protestant churches too, struggle to hold the traditional line, thousands of African Independent Churches are growing up around the continent. They are thriving precisely because they are free from overseas restriction and remote form, and because they do not worry about ritual backsliding...