Product Description: English summary: It is often forgotten that the origins of Christianity lie in the Near East and that the earliest Christians lived in Africa. While the Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Near Eastern Christians are rooted directly in the earliest traditions of their religion, the churches in the regions south of the Sahara resulted from the missionary efforts undertaken in the context of the colonial European expansion; since the end of the colonial era these have seen an unprecedented growth, which has lasted until the present and led to a multiplicity of newly-founded churches...read more