Christianity Implodes in Europe; Explodes in Africa

Breitbart ^ | 12/29/2015 | by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

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Christianity is experiencing an unprecedented boom on the African continent and now accounts for more than half of Africa’s total population, while Christian affiliation and practice continue to ebb in Europe, signaling a major demographic shift in global Christianity.

An article in the Christmas issue of the Economist lays out the sobering statistics of European Christianity, while holding up the remarkable growth of the Christian faith among Africans.

Christianity is experiencing more rapid growth in Africa than anywhere else on the planet, including Asia and Latin America. In 1910 less than 10% of Africans identified as Christians, whereas today 55% of the population is Christian. And while in 2015 Europe still has the largest Christian population of any continent at just over 575 million, Africa is projected to overtake it by 2025.

The growth of Christianity in Africa averages 2.78% each year, while Europe's growth rate languishes at 0.16%, meaning that while Africa becomes more and more Christian, Europe becomes less so.

The striking growth of Christianity in Africa is not merely a question of religious affiliation, but is reflected in actual religious belief and practice. The Economist reports that 90% of self-identified Christians attend church regularly across the five sub-Saharan African countries for which data are available (Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe), making African Christians the most devout in the world.

Religious practice among European Christians, on the other hand, is significantly lower, and falling year by year. In France and Sweden, only one in ten adult Christians attend church services at least once a month.

In traditionally Catholic Ireland, nearly 90% of adult Catholics attended Mass every week in 1984, but by 2011 the number had plummeted to just 18%.

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In Germany, more than 400 Roman Catholic churches and more than 100 Protestant churches have been shut down since 2000, with another 700 Roman Catholic churches scheduled for closing over the next several years. Religious practice among Germans is falling year by year and just 12.3% of Catholics regularly attend Church services, according to the German conference of bishops.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

You mean the type of Christianity that still mixes witchcraft & sorcery along with cannibalism?

Or real Meat & Bones Gospel and denying oneself?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: You mean the type of Christianity that still mixes witchcraft & sorcery along with cannibalism?

If Missionaries don’t put a stop to witchcraft and sorcery when they baptize converts, then they are not doing their job at all.

[Don Corleone]

. In 1910 less than 10% of Africans identified as Christians,

More than likely in 1910 less than 10 percent of Africans even knew they were Africans. Insular tribalism prevailed.

[jwalsh07]

As Africa becomes more Christian their economy will expand, their education systems will improve and they will begin to bloom while Europe rots like a gutted fish.

[Darteaus94025]

I donated $50 to missionaries for 10 Bibles this year. Some people walked two days, paid a week’s wages and spent two days walking home.

Africa is the best bang for the Christian buck.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Missionary work sometimes makes you want to lose all hope for humanity. Paul must have felt the same way with those Galatians who went right back to their old ways after converting.

From what I hear, Africa is a mixed bag. China on the other hand will be a Christian force to be reckoned with within 50 years.

As for Europe, two millennia of truth and salvation are literally down the pipe because a couple generations decided that Church, the Bible, Family, and Children cramped their lifestyle.

[tbw2]

The irony of this is that Europe could be subject to Christian missionaries from Africa in another generation.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Europe will be inherited by Muslims.

[ViLaLuz]

Europe has already been declared Dar Al-Salam by Islam.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I think that process has already begun actually. Europe is a mission field at this point and has been for decades.

[FourPeas]

I greatly look forward to meeting my African brothers and sisters in Christ some day. May God continue to multiply their numbers!

[RobbyS]

Scientism is the religion of Europe. Not that the average educated person has more than a child’s knowledge of any science, but they have implicit faith in the shamans of that faith. This includes many Christian theologians, especially the Germans.

[Biggirl]

The later.

[Biggirl]

Amen to that.

[Biggirl]

Yet will be new missionary field for the Christians .

[Biggirl]

As the west sent Christian missionaries to Africa and Asia, so it will be the countries in Africa and Asia to sent Christian missionaries to the west.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ve read that missionaries from Africa are going to Europe.