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‘To Suffer Grief in All Kinds of Trials’: Persecution and Martyrdom in the African Church in the Twentieth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

David Killingray
David Killingray*
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Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
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There is a good case for regarding the twentieth century as the century of Christian persecution and martyrdom. Both individual Christians, as well as the Church as a whole, have suffered severely at the hands of authoritarian regimes in Europe and Asia and also from institutional and state hostility in all but a few areas of the world. The Church has invariably been divided and split in its reactions to these pressures. This paper focuses upon the experience of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa where the Church has grown very rapidly in size and significance this century, most notably since the 1940s.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 30: Martyrs and Martyrologies , 1993 , pp. 465 - 482
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1993

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