Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A young girl guards a pile of Bibles outside Pentecostal Assemblies of God at Kwa Nduma slums in Langata which sits at ...

The Holy Bible containing handwritten records for the Ellis family. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Clara Ellis Payne This Ellis family ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The first special exhibition to focus specifically on religion since the museum opened includes photos and artifacts accompanied by quotations of famous African Americans.

1799 Church Missionary Society founded. 1804 British and Foreign Bible Society founded. 1840s Roman Catholic missionary societies The Congregation of the Holy Ghost and the White Fathers founded. 1886 ...

In this follow-up to my write-up, ldquo;Zionism and Christianity: Faith, History and Politics, rdquo; I examine how African ...

The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...

Sankofa is an African word which held deep meaning for the late LuJuana Hood. As she interpreted it, the word carried a message, “You must know your history to develop a better future.” These words ...

A young girl guards a pile of Bibles outside Pentecostal Assemblies of God at Kwa Nduma slums in Langata which sits at the edge of Nairobi dam in a picture taken on May 05, 2024. [File, Standard] For ...