Spread Of Christianity In Africa

There is various reason that led for Christianity to spread throughout Africa. I’m going to discuss of a few reasons that helped spread Christianity in Africa. Christianity first arrived in the 1st or early 2nd century, in Northern Africa. The earliest Christian communities in North Africa were some of the earliest in the world. Early tales have it that Christianity was brought from Jerusalem to Alexandria on the Egyptian coast. This is belief that it was around the same time or even before Christianity was spread to Northern Europe. Also for many Africans the Jesus’ message of salvation and redemption, combined with the strong communal focus of early Christianity, which held a strong appeal to many whose lives were filled with struggle.
When it reached North Africa, Christianity spread slowly, it was embraced as a religion of disagreement against the expanding …show more content…
It also remained in various areas in North Africa. North Africans Christian sometimes welcomed the Islamic Armies as liberators from the political and spiritual oppression. There were exceptions the welcoming Christians in Nubia, which twice defeated Muslim armies at Dongola and was recognized as a sovereign state by the Islamic leaders in the treaty known as a baqt, the only Christian government legitimized. In the north Christians were encourage but not force to convert into Islam. Muslims did not demand for conversion or threaten with death contrary to belief. But they would grant spiritual freedom to the Christian communities that recognized Islam as the suzerain and they had to pay special tax. With such system, the number of Christians in North Africa and Nile Valley diminished slowly. In the late tenth century Christianity remain a majority in Egypt. Even though it only made up about 10 percent of the population in Egypt, it still remained the dominant religion in Ethiopia to current