After the pope ended his Africa swing on Monday, my wife and I remained in Cameroon for most of this week, pondering the impact of the trip and taking stock of the African church. The experience ...

Recently a friend told me about an experience he and his wife had as students at a flagship evangelical seminary in the early 1980s. “The black church,” one of their professors explained, “is not ...

Boston College theology professor M. Shawn Copeland. (Credit: Boston College.) Listen ROME — The women of Africa need to claim their space in the field of theology. This was one of the conclusions as ...

Africa’s theological landscape is changing significantly and rapidly. The pace and scope of this transformation came into focus at the first regional conference of the global network of Catholic ...

On Nov. 1, Pope Francis gave a new mandate to the Pontifical Academy of Theology to "develop" the theological discipline to embody "a culture of dialogue and encounter between different traditions and ...

Theologian Kwame Bediako, who died in 2008, explored the intersections of identity, culture, and gospel by challenging long-standing assumptions about how to write theology. He modeled an African ...

“Resurrection,” by Engelbert Mveng, S.J., in the Jesuit chapel at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya. (Courtesy of author) Upon the death of the Rev. Bénézet Bujo last week in Switzerland, the ...

Byang Kato (1936-1975) has been called the Founding Father of African Evangelical Theology. The year is 1974 and the place a broken-down hospital being remodeled into mission agency offices in Jos, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Pope Leo's decision to make Africa one of the early destinations of his young papacy signals the continent's importance in global Catholicism. His April 2026 visit reflects ...

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 ...

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