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A police officer stands guard inside the St Francis Catholic Church, a day after an attack that targeted worshipers in Owo, Nigeria. Surveying a rising tide of anti-Christian persecution across Africa, one expert says it’s an attempt to curb Christianity’s phenomenal growth on the continent — one doomed to fail, he said.
“It would be naïve to assume that the growth of Christianity in Africa has not led to an increased effort — by jihadist groups and authoritarian governments alike — to slow or halt this growth altogether,” said John Pontifex, Head of Press and Information at the papal charity Aid to the Church in Need.“Persecution serves to increase the quality and quantity of Christians wherever they may be, much like gold is refined in a fire,” he said.
According to PEW Research, the world’s Christian population is expected to grow from 2.2 billion in 2010 to 2.9 billion in 2050. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Christian population will more than double, growing from about half a billion people in 2010 to more than a billion in 2050.
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