While Catholicism is dominant in Latin America, it is virtually non-existent in Africa.
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Christianity did not reach western Africa until the 1600’s.
In 1537, the pope issued a bull stating that Native Americans did have souls.
Many African countries gained their independence in the 1940s, right after the end of World War II.
The first Catholic Council in Latin America occurred in the 1500s.
The English established forts and churches along the Gambia river as early as the 1400’s.
Many countries in the Global South are making the transition from being missionary-recipient (receiving missionaries) to mission-minded (sending missionaries).
Many European missionaries died from disease.
More African slaves went to Brazil than to the United States.
The Spanish were able to maintain control of the West Indies until World War II.
Most Latin American countries achieved independence in the 1800s.
While the Portuguese first explored Africa in the late 1400s, Protestant European countries dominated by the end of the 1800s.
Like Africa, the West Indies countries did not achieve their independence until after World War II.
The first Protestant missionary to Nigeria was from the Church of England.
Christians were persecuted in Uganda in the 1800s.
Christianity was introduced into Sub-saharan Africa (the part of Africa below the Sahara Desert) along the coasts and not from missionaries sent south from North Africa.
World Christianity is witnessing a drive toward indigenization of Christianity.
Christopher Columbus brought missionaries with him on his first trip to the “New World.”
The Sudan Interior Mission began work in western Africa in the early 1900’s.