Growth of Christianity in Sudan

Growth of Christianity in Sudan

Introduction

Christianity has always been strong with its mission, and the force does not decrease with the advent of new technologies. The number of times to Christianity from any other religion is very much greater than the number of calls from Christianity to another religion. This is true in the world to any world religion. On this basis, we can conclude that, in the future, role of Christianity in the world will grow. In addition, with declining birth rates in the world, including Islamic countries, will increase the importance of missionary work. Missions will play a more significant change in the number of adherents of religion, than when playing a central role in population growth exclusion of religion from each other.

Christianity

Currently Christianity has been active in missionary work around the world and all countries. This missionary activity produces results that are expressed in annual address to the large number of Gentile Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and followers of other religions or philosophical systems. Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox Christians, who are notable differences between them, as a rule, do not think about their differences when it comes to preaching the Gospel among the people of other religions. In countries with a majority of people of other religions, Christians support each other and generally accepted by representatives of other religions without controversy within Christianity.

History of Sudan

The first state formation appeared on the territory of contemporary Sudan. At the same time, much of northern Sudan (Upper Nubia) conquered Egypt and was converted into a source of gold, ivory and slaves to the pharaohs. Since the 12 century BC, in Northern Sudan there was an advanced civilization of the kingdom of Kush, and in the first half of the VIII century. BC these same areas came Nile, Ethiopia slave state, which existed before 23 BC when it was destroyed by the Romans. In 4B.C, the role of the kingdom of Meroe raised in the central Sudan. In 6 B.C, the territory of contemporary Sudan converted into Christianity. At first several Christian states were formed, but then united into one known as the kingdom of Nubia.

Islam and Muslim culture supersede Christianity in the 10 century. Areas of northern Sudan are vassal states, paying tribute to Muslim Egypt. In 16th century, they were merged into two large feudal sultanates: Fung on the east and Darfur in the west of present-day territory of the country. Over the next three centuries, it was developed between the main contenders for control of the hinterland. Southern Sudan was inhabited by numerous tribes of the Nilotic and Sudanese, remain a source of slaves for the traders in the Middle East.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, there was a growing interest in the Sudan and Egypt. In 1820, the conquest of Egypt and Sudan became a source of diverse natural resources, first to Egypt and then to Britain, dominating these areas at the end of the 19th century. In the 1880s, power in Sudan temporarily ...