Section 25

Madagascar

It was under chieftain that Christianity was effectively introduced and entered on what was to be a drastic course.

By 1890 Christians numbered about a third of a million.

Africa South of the Sahara

In the 19^th Century, contained the largest primitive cultures found anywhere on the planet.

Religion was chiefly animism in one or another of its protean manifestations.

Rapid Christian Expansion

The Congo Free State, by 1914, reconstituted as the Belgian Congo, was another area of rapid Christian growth.

Both Protestants and roman Catholics attracted large numbers of converts, but the latters’ growth was particularly spectacular.