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Jul 5, 2020 · Outline of the history of the Orthodox Church in Africa. The Orthodox Church in Africa traces its origins to St. Mark, who planted the church in the city of Alexandria in AD 42 or thereabouts. Alexandria was a cosmopolitan city, established by Alexander the Great, whose successors established the Ptolemaic dynasty, and ruled Egypt until they ...
- 1: Persecution of Christians and Other Persecutions: A historical Overview:
- 2: Content, Forms and Context of Persecutions of Christians:
- 3: Persecution of Christians in Nigeria:
- iii): Denial of the rights of inheritance to Christian women who marry Muslims and remain Christians:
- v): Denial of access to state employment
- vii): Non payments of compensation for destroyed Churches and Institutions.
- viii): Skewed location of federal presence in the Northern states:
- ix): Kidnapping and forced marriages of non-Muslim girls
- ): Lack of access to Christian Religious Education in schools in the Northern states:
- 4: Summary and Conclusion: Opportunities for addressing the issues
What is persecution? My apple dictionary defines it as: victimization, maltreatment, ill-treatment, mistreatment, abuse, ill-usage, discrimination, tyranny; informal witch hunt. If we take this as a working definition, the next question might be, how do we categorise this persecution or how does it express itself? Clearly, the way it manifests its...
Perhaps, it might be true to say that, like love, persecution may actually be in the eyes of the beholder. To appreciate the context of this theme for the purpose of our reflection, I think it is important to first disaggregate what we might call shades and forms of persecution with a view to examining which of them fits our discussion. For example...
The issues that generate violence and can be considered as persecution against Christians in places like Nigeria and most parts of Africa, have to do with issues around law and order, Constitutionalism and freedom. In many respects, what we may today identify as persecution may in actual fact the result of the failure to apply the principles of the...
Perhaps more than any social institution, marriage is the greatest glue that holds diverse peoples together whether they are divided by faith, region, or race. In the south west of Nigeria and in many other countries around Africa, such as the Gambia and Senegal among others, marriages between Muslims and Christians happen as a matter of course and...
In many states in the North where Christians are indigenous some individuals often complain that are often denied job placements on the grounds that the States are Muslim states. In most of these states, it is almost impossible to find a Christian holding a senior position such as the Head of a state parastatal, or the position of a Director or Per...
From the middle of the 80s when the issue of urban violence and attack against places of worship started, Christians, their churches and businesses have suffered the most. At the beginning, a few state governments such as Kaduna, offered some token compensation, but this is no longer the case. Perhaps this is right since it tended to wrongly encour...
There are concerns among Christians that citing of state and federal projects by way of infrastructure is often skewed in favour of Muslim dominated areas. In States like Adamawa, Bauchi, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Kebbi, federal structures such as tertiary institutions (Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education etc), General hospitals which ar...
In parts of Northern Nigeria there has on various occasions been stories of the kidnapping of young non-Muslim girls who have been lured and forced into marriages to Muslims in some cities in Northern Nigeria. The vulnerability of the girl child is legendary in the Northern states where they are forced into marriages at early ages. A good number of...
Although guaranteed in our Constitution, most public schools in the Northern states do not allow the teaching of Christian religious knowledge in Primary and Secondary schools. Even in the Tertiary institutions, the issues of Christian Chaplaincies are a serious challenge. Many Vice Chancellors of Universities, Provosts of College of Education or ...
In your briefing note for this conference, you posed five questions. I have tried to answer the first two as to where these persecutions are and how they are manifested, focusing on Nigeria. The last three questions relate to what responses these persecutions demand from us, how we can form partnerships with people of other faiths to resolve the...
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Religion in Africa (2020 estimate) [1] Christianity (49.3%) Islam (41.5%) Traditional faiths (7.9%) None / Other (1.3%) Religion in Africa is multifaceted and has been a major influence on art, culture and philosophy. Today, the continent's various populations and individuals are mostly adherents of Christianity, Islam, and to a lesser extent ...
Traditional African religions have faced persecution from Christians and Muslims. Adherents of these religions have been forcefully converted to Islam and Christianity, demonized and marginalized. The atrocities include killings, waging war, destroying of sacred places, and other atrocities.
Christianity in Africa shows tremendous variety, from the ancient forms of Oriental Orthodox Christianity in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Eritrea to the newest African-Christian denominations of Nigeria, a country that has experienced large conversion to Christianity in recent times.
Sep 17, 2004 · If you are Catholic, Muslim, or a member of the Orthodox and Evangelical churches in Eritrea then it seems you can breathe easy. However, those who believe and practise minority faiths are routinely persecuted, according to human rights groups.
Apr 15, 2010 · Sub-Saharan Africa now is home to about one-in-five of all the Christians in the world (21%) and more than one-in-seven of the world’s Muslims (15%). 1. While sub-Saharan Africa has almost twice as many Christians as Muslims, on the African continent as a whole the two faiths are roughly balanced, with 400 million to 500 million followers each.
