Chisopa mu Africa

**Chisopa mu Africa** chili na vigaŵa vinandi ndipo chili na nkharo, maluso, na vinjeru vinandi. Mazuŵa ghano, ŵanthu ŵanandi ŵa mu Africa ŵakulondezga visopa vya Chikhristu, Chisilamu, na visopa vinyake vya ku Africa. Mu vyaru vya Cikhristu panji Cisilamu, visambizgo vya cisopa nyengo zinyake vikupambana na visambizgo vya visopa vyacikale.

## Visopa vya ku Africa

Mu Africa muli visopa vyakupambanapambana. Nangauli nyengo zinyake ŵanthu ŵa mu vyaru vinyake ŵakuyana waka pa nkhani ya chisopa, kweni kanandi ŵanthu aŵa ŵakukhala mu vyaru vyakupambanapambana. Visopa vyose vya ku Africa vikukolerana na fundo yakuyana ya kusopa ŵasekuru.

Dr. J Omosade Awolalu wakati, mazgu ghakuti "wakale" pa lemba ili ghakung'anamura vinthu vyakwambilira, ivyo vikufuma ku muwiro na muwiro. Chiharo icho chafuma kumasinda, kweni kuti nchinthu cha kumasinda yayi, kweni icho chikukolerana na ivyo vyacitika kale na ivyo vyacitika sono ndiposo ivyo vyacitika sono na vyamuyirayira.

Kanandi ŵakuyowoya za umo vinthu viliri, kweni ŵakumanya kuti Africa ni caru cikuru ico cili na mitundu yinandi iyo yili na mitheto yakupambanapambana, viyowoyero vyambura mapendeko na viyowoyero vinandi.

### Kumanjiliro gha dazi kwa Africa
### Ŵanthu ŵa ku East Africa
## Visopa vya Abrahamu
Ŵanandi mwa ŵanthu ŵa mu Africa ŵali mu cisopa ca Cikhristu panji Cisilamu. Kanandi ŵanthu ŵa ku Africa ŵakusazga cisambizgo ca cisambizgo cawo na cisambizgo ca cisopa ca Abrahamu. Visopa vya Abrahamu vili palipose mu Africa. Visopa ivi vikupambana na visopa vinyake vya ku Africa, kweni kanandi vikukolerana na mitheto ya ŵanthu ŵa ku Africa. Buku linyake likuti mu 2002, Ŵakhristu ndiwo ŵakaŵa pa ciŵelengero ca ŵanthu 45 pa caru cose, ndipo Ŵasilamu 40 pa 100. Kweniso mu 2002, ŵanthu 45 pa 100 wose mu Africa ŵakaŵa Ŵakhristu, ndipo 40.6 pa 100 wose ŵakaŵa Ŵasilamu.

### Chikhristu
Pasono Chikhristu ndicho ntchisopa chikuru chomene mu Africa pamoza na Chisilamu. Mu vyaru vinandi vya pa caru capasi muli visopa vinandi vyautesi, nga ni Nazarete Baptist Church mu South Africa na Aladura Church mu Nigeria. Paliso ŵanthu ŵanandi ŵa chisopa cha Seventh-day Adventist na Ŵakaboni ŵa Yehova. Matchalitchi ghakale chomene gha Chikhristu mu Africa ni Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, na Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church na Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (awo ŵakamba kumanyikwa mu vyaka vya m'ma 400 C.E. Themba Ezana Mulara likati lazgora Ethiopia kuŵa chinyake mwa vyaru vyakwambilira vya Chikhristu.)

Mu vilimika vyakwambilira vya Chikhristu, mu Africa mukaŵa ŵanthu ŵanandi awo ŵakaŵa na nkharo yiwemi comene, kusazgapo St. Augustine wa ku Hippo, St. Maurice, Origen, Tertullian, na ŵapapa ŵatatu ŵa Katolika (Victor I, Miltiades, na Gelasius I), kweniso ŵanthu awo ŵakuzunulika mu Baibolo nga ni Simoni wa ku Kirene na nthunguli ya ku Etiyopiya iyo yikabapatizika na Filipu Mupharazgi. Chikhristu chikaŵako mu Ethiopia pambere Themba Ezana Mukuru wa Ufumu wa Axum wandawuse, kweni chisopa ichi chikaŵa chakukhora chomene apo chikapharazgika kuŵa chisopa cha boma mu 330 C.E., ndipo chikaŵa chimoza mwa vyaru vyakwambilira vya Chikhristu.

Buku lakwamba na lakumanyikwa chomene ilo likuyowoya za umo Chikhristu chikambira ku Africa lili mu buku la Milimo ya Ŵapositole. Nangauli Baibolo likuŵachema kuti Ŵaetiyopiya, kweni ŵanthu ŵanyake ŵakuti Etiyopiya ni malo agho ghakaŵa kumwera kwa Eguputo.

Ŵanthu ŵanyake ŵakuti munthu uyu wakaŵa Muyuda, ndipo wakaŵa muteŵeti mu nyumba ya Fumukazi. Tyrannius Rufinus, uyo wakaŵa wakulemba mdauko wa cisopa, nayo wakalemba nkhani yake, nga umo ŵakucitira ŵanthu ŵanyake awo ŵakulemba mdauko wa cisopa nga ni Socrates na Sozemius.

Ŵanthu ŵanyake ŵakuti mu nyengo yasono, Cikristu cizamufuma mu vyaru vya ku Europe kuluta ku Africa na Asia. Lamin Sanneh, wakulemba mdauko wa pa Yunivesite ya Yale, wakati: "Chikhristu cha ku Africa chikaŵa chinthu chachilendo yayi, kweni chikaŵa chigaŵa chinyake cha charu icho ŵanthu ŵakachimanyanga yayi. Buku linyake (World Christian Encyclopedia) likuti mu 2025, mu Africa muzamuŵa Ŵakhristu 633 miliyoni.

Kafukufuku munyake uyo wakachitika mu 2015, wakalongora kuti mu Africa muli Ŵakhristu 2,161,000 awo Mbasilamu.

### Chisilamu
### Chiyuda
### Chipulikano cha Baha'i
## Chisopa cha Chihindu
## Chibuda na visopa vya ŵanthu
## Visopa vinyake
## Kuleka Kusopa
## Kusinthasintha
## Kupharazga
## Wonani
## Maumboni
## Kuŵerenga
## Maulalo gha kuwaro