Africa was actively engaged with Christianity from its earliest days, significantly contributing to its growth and intellectual development. Egypt: Christianity spread to Egypt as early as the 1st ...

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Christian population is expected to double from 517 million in 2010 to 1.1 billion by 2050, increasing its share of the world's Christians from 24% to 38%.

But, I fail to see how this phenomenon is connected to the enormous and rapid growth of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa and in China. Or to the new-found vigor of Latin American Catholicism (in ...