Talk:Christianity in Africa

message: I started this page, with its associated Category, to provide a historical survey of Christianity in Africa as a whole. This can have links to articles on Christianity in different regions, or different denominations or aspects of Christian history, but local details should be kept in other places. SteveH 13:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New page 

message: Links/crossover with Christianity and politics and Religion and politics might be appropriate (eg how do the various religions interact in Africa) Jackiespeel 17:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement 

message: Substituted at 11:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: On the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Africa text reads "The World Book Encyclopedia has estimated that in 2002 Christians formed 40% of the continent's population, with Muslims forming 45%" on this page it says "The World Book Encyclopedia has estimated that in 2002 Christians formed 80% of the continent's population, with Muslims forming 20%". There are no citations on either.
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thread_title:  The World Book Encyclopedia 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Christianity in Africa's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Global Christianity":
From Christian population growth: 
From Protestantism: 
From Christianity: 
From Christianity in Asia: 
Reference named "pewforum1":
From Christian denomination: 
From Protestantism by country: 
From Protestantism: 
From Christian population growth: 
From Eastern Orthodoxy by country: 
From Christianity by country: 
From Christianity: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:23, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Christianity in Africa]] 

message: Dare 197.229.1.159 (talk) 20:32, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sare 

message: There are some unsurprising and not particularly subtle POV problems in the article, at least with regards to North African history under Islamic rule, which has also encouraged some incompetent POV editing in the lead. A number of sources at the beginning of the "After the Muslim conquest of Eastern Roman North Africa" section were cited to support a general, uncontextualized statement on killings and church demolitions, when in fact all the substantial sources refer to the reign of al-Hakim specifically, who is universally noted as an atypical ruler of the time (in more ways than one). In another case, a very relevant article that addresses many useful points () was cited with a modified title to make it appear more supportive of the in-line wording. 
Also, as tends to happen with these kinds of articles, the quite rich internal history of Christian communities in the Islamic world (such as the Copts in the case of Africa, the expansion of the Armenian church to Egypt under the Fatimids, etc) is almost entirely omitted, aside from mentioning some persecutions, making it look like they barely existed except to be persecuted every now and then. I've cleaned some of this up (in this edit), and then added some basic details from scholarly sources, but this is barely scratching the surface of reliable sources and this isn't where I plan to spend my time. If editors take the topic seriously and respect WP:NPOV, there is a lot of content that could be added. R Prazeres (talk) 17:11, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV problems (on North Africa) 

message: In 2020, the latest year with statistics avaiable, 48 percent of Togo people were Christians, 33 percent folk religion members and 18 percent islamic.
Therefore in every single african country either Christianity or Islam is the single most adhered religion, with Togo being the latest and last one to join the club. 93.206.56.3 (talk) 03:50, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Togo now also has a christian plurality among its citizens 

message: What about armenia?  Sj2001 (talk) 14:21, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Therefore, the Ethiopian church community is globally unique in that it wasn't Christianised through European missionaries, but was highly independent and itself spread missionaries throughout the rest of Africa prior to European Christians contact with the continent. "