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== Rapid growth of Christianity in Africa in recent times ==
[[File:African open air Christian meeting.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Africa]]n Christians clapping at an open air meeting.
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In recent years, Christianity has seen a rapid growth in Africa.<ref>[http://gratefultothedead.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/the-african-apostles-how-christianity-exploded-in-20th-century-africa/ The African apostles: How Christianity exploded in 20th-century Africa]</ref> See: [[Global Christianity]] ]]
''See also:'' [[Historical examples of the exponential growth of Christianity]]
Updated figures for 2021 show that there are now nearly 685 million Christians in Africa, already vastly surpassing projected figures for 2025.<ref>https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/12/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2021.pdf</ref> It shows Christianity continues to grow among every Continent and Tribe, just as was prophesied in the Scriptures long ago by the Prophet Daniel and Saint John the Apostle. The Prophet Daniel saw Christ at the right hand of the Father receive worship from people of every tribe and tongue and St. John the Apostle, in the Book of Revelation, prophetically foretells a vast multitude that no man could number, adoring and praising God and Christ. The updated projection for 2025, from Gordon Conwell, is now an amazing 760 Million!
New data from the Gordon Theological Seminary shows that, for the first time ever, more number of Christians live in Africa than on any other single continent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Todd M. |last2=Zurlo |first2=Gina A. |last3=Hickman |first3=Albert W. |last4=Crossing |first4=Peter F. |title=Christianity 2018: More African Christians and Counting Martyrs |journal=International Bulletin of Mission Research |date=November 2017 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=20–28 |doi=10.1177/2396939317739833 |accessdate=2 May 2020}}</ref>
"The results show Africa on top with 631 million Christian residents, Latin America in 2nd place with 601 million Christians, and Europe in 3rd place with 571 million Christians."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mauro |first1=J.-P. |title=Africa overtakes Latin America for the highest Christian population |url=https://aleteia.org/2018/07/24/africa-overtakes-latin-america-for-the-highest-christian-population/ |website=Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture |02 May 2020 |language=en |date=24 July 2018}}</ref>
The statistics from the ''World Christian Encyclopedia'' (David Barrett) illustrate the emerging trend of dramatic Christian growth on the continent and supposes, that in 2025 there will be 633 million Christians in Africa.<ref>World Council of Churches Report, August 2004</ref>
For more information, please see: [https://www.christianmessenger.in/study-traces-exponential-growth-of-christianity-in-africa/ Study traces exponential growth of Christianity in Africa]
=== Catholic Church in Africa ===
Philip Jenkins reported in the Catholic Herald: "In 1900, the whole of Africa had just a couple of million Catholics, but that number grew to 130 million by the end of the century, and today it approaches 200 million. If current trends continue, as they show every sign of doing, then by the 2040s there will be some 460 million African Catholics. Incredibly, that number would be greater than the total world population of Catholics as it stood in 1950."<ref>Jenkins, Philip, ''Catholicism's Incredible Growth Story.''https://catholicherald.co.uk/catholicisms-incredible-growth-story/. 8 Sept 2016.</ref>
By 2025, one-sixth (230 million) of the world's Catholics are expected to be Africans.<ref>David Barrett, ''International Bulletin of Missionary Research'', Vol. 30, No 1, January 2006, 29.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/world/africa/16pope.html|title=On Africa Trip, Pope Will Find Place Where Church Is Surging Amid Travail|last=Donadio|first=Rachel|date=2009-03-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-19|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Accordingly, the latest available figures for 2020 show that 640 Million Africans are now Christians, reaching and surpassing the earlier estimate for 2025.<ref>https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2020.pdf</ref> As of 2020, Catholics worldwide were 1.33 billion.<ref>http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Catholics-increasing-worldwide,-reaching-1.329-billion-49663.html</ref> Similarly, the projections for Catholics have been exceeded, with 234 African Catholics, for the year ended 31 December 2017.<ref>https://cbk.blob.core.windows.net/cms/ContentItems/29708_29708/dossier-fides-statistics-2019-en.pdf</ref>
The way that things are going on in the African Continent, there are good prospects of there being over a billion African Christians in 20 years.
== Growth of evangelical Christianity ==
== Growth of evangelical Christianity ==