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Christianity is the dominant religion in South Africa, with almost 80% of the population in 2001 professing to be Christian.No single denomination predominates, with mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches, and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents.
Christianity is the dominant religion in South Africa, with 85.3% of the population in 2022 professing to be Christian. No single denomination predominates, with mainstream Protestant churches, Pentecostal churches, African initiated churches , and the Catholic Church all having significant numbers of adherents.
1700 – After a Swedish missionary's sermon in Pennsylvania, one Native American posed such searching questions that the episode was reported in a 1731 history of the Swedish church in America. The interchange is noted in Benjamin Franklin's Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America (1784). [169]
Christian History Project Online Version of the 12-Volume Popular History Series The Christians : Their First Two Thousand Years, Sponsored by the Society to Explore and Record Christian History; Flavius Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, earlyjewishwritings.com; Flavius Josephus: Early Jewish Writings- The Wars Of The Jews, earlyjewishwritings.com
Map of the black homelands in South Africa at the end of apartheid in 1994. Although many important events occurred during this period, apartheid remained the central pivot around which most of the historical issues of this period revolved, including violent conflict and the militarisation of South African society.
Pages in category "History of Christianity in South Africa" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Another phase of Christianity in Africa began with the arrival of Portuguese in the 15th century. [22] After the end of Reconquista, the Christian Portuguese and Spanish captured many ports in North Africa. [23] The bishopric of Marrakesh continued to exist until the late 16th century and was borne by the suffragans of Seville.
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa estimated in 2006 that there were between 3 and 4 million Anglicans across Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mocambique, Namibia, South Africa and the island of St Helena. [3] A study published in 2020 produced an estimated figure of 2.3 million (4%) Anglicans in South Africa as of 2015. [4]