Roughly 26 % are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism ( Congregationals, Methodists, Baptista, Lutherans, Reformed ), but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches.

" Since 1991, the church has been the main London home of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, an African Initiated Church based in Nigeria and led by Olumba Olumba Obu, who followers describe as " the sole spiritual head of the universe ".

Many churches with roots in Restorationism reject being identified as Protestant or even as a denomination at all, as they use only the Bible not creeds, and model the church after what they feel is the first century church found in scripture ; the Churches of Christ are one example ; African Initiated Churches, like Kimbanguism, mostly fall within Protestantism, with varying degrees of syncretism.

* African Initiated Church

The church's name is the Kimbanguist Church ( fully Église de Jésus Christ sur la Terre par son envoyé spécial Simon Kimbangu, or The Church of Christ on Earth by His Special Envoy Simon Kimbangu ), and is a large, independent African Initiated Church with an estimated 5. 5 million believers.

* African Initiated Churches

* African Initiated Churches

The Celestial Church of Christ is an African Initiated Church founded by the Rev.

In the midst of this crowded region was the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress ( SANNC ) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.

A few institutions chose to keep their historic names, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk was the national Church of the South African Republic ( 1852 – 1902 ).

In 2007, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church withdrew from CUIC.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church resumed its participation by the February 2010 plenary meeting, where CUIC moved to refocus on its eight marks of commitment and a shared concern for racial justice as a major dividing factor facing ecumenism.

Although the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has not rejoined the group, efforts have continued to bring this communion back into membership.

* African Methodist Episcopal Church

* African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

* Celestial Church of Christ an independent African Church

This followed the 1793 establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, which had ties to the Methodist Episcopal Church until 1816.

This was renamed the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, more commonly known as the A. U. M. P.

* The African Methodist Episcopal Church

Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.

From 1852 to 1978, the LDS Church had a policy against ordaining men of African descent to the priesthood.

Bishop Richard Allen ( bishop ) | Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Some, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the AME Zion Church, the Free Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Church ( formerly Wesleyan Methodist Connection ), the Congregational Methodist Church and First Congregational Methodist Church are explicitly Methodist.

In addition, as a northern Christian, Habré represented a constituency that favored co-operation and solidarity with Arabs, both African, and Asian.

The term " holism " was coined in 1926 by Jan Christian Smuts, a South African general and polarizing historical figure who was inspired by Clements ' superorganism concept.

His objectives included finding the source of the West African gold trade and the legendary Christian kingdom of Prester John, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Portuguese coast.

Many Christian African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa do so in addition to observing Christmas.

With the age of colonialism and Christian evangelism, the Latin script was spread overseas, and applied to indigenous American, Australian, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, and African languages.

Since 1985, the UMC has been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

In addition, Eastern Oromos who were converted to Islam ruled over most of Ethiopia together with Afars and Somalis when Horn of African Muslims who were united and led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi conquered a majority of Christian Ethiopian highlands.

In 711, Muslim Moors, mainly North African Berber soldiers with some Arabs, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and began their conquest of the Christian Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania.

From the 11th to the 19th century, North African Barbary Pirates engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns, to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in places such as Algeria and Morocco.

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

The United Methodist Church has since 1985 been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

* Constantine the African, Carthaginian Christian physician and translator of ancient Greek medicine

* c. 1080 – the Liber pantegni, a compendium of Hellenistic and Islamic medicine, is written in Italy by the Carthaginian Christian Constantine the African, paraphrasing translated passages from the Kitab al-malaki of Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi as well as other Arabic texts.

* February 1 – Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist ( d. 1836 )

But also Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi achieved a fourth place in the 1993 South African Grand Prix.

At the same time his missionary travels, " disappearance " and death in Africa, and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European " Scramble for Africa ".

In the African American community, where many people practice a form of folk magic called hoodoo or rootworking, a fortune telling session or " reading " for a client may be followed by practical guidance in spell-casting and Christian prayer, through a process called " magical coaching ".

The Norman Roger II of Sicily ( 1095 – 1154 ), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who previously had served as a naval commander for several North African Moslem rulers.

To facilitate the distribution of these albums and the other thirty year commemorative merchandise, as well the albums of his other Solid Rock Imports artists, including Swedish band Edin-Adahl, South African Victor Phume, and Swedish white metal band Leviticus, Norman signed an agreement with Royal Music of Sweden to distribute in Europe, and with a newly established Christian distribution company for North American distribution.

# The United Methodist Church with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Born into a devoutly Christian middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound.

Now the Christian army had to deal with armies of North African Muslims called Fatimids, who had adopted the name of the ruling family in Cairo, Egypt.