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The Pentecostal Wave of Africa: The Beginnings

Pentecostalism in Africa began in Nigeria during the early twentieth century as a renewal movement to the prominent mission churches in Africa. Nigeriahas the largest population of Pentecostals in Africa and, in a study from 2006, three out of ten Nigerians identify as either Pentecostal of Charismatic. Around 1910, an Anglican deacon launches an indigenous […]