Daniel_Cheung
10-31-2009, 10:00 AM
Africa: Evangelical Churches Shake Up the Social Order
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910290919.html
The fire of Pentecostal evangelism is burning through the continent scorching "sins" and shaking the religio-political status quo to its very foundation. Meanwhile, traditional churches are watching helplessly as their members defect en masse to the Pentecostal churches.
Just a week ago in Kenya, Bishop Margaret Wanjru's Jesus is Alive Ministries, a Pentecostal church, received Maina Njenga. Njenga is not your normal Sunday service convert but the leader of the Mungiki, an ancestral worship "sect" complete with a political and economic arm that has been linked to brutal killings in Kenya and Mafia-like extortion rings. Njenga's triumphal march -- followed by thousands of Mungiki adherents who had suddenly 'seen the light' -- into Bishop Wanjiru's Nairobi church happened a day after the State dropped murder charges against him....
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910290919.html
The fire of Pentecostal evangelism is burning through the continent scorching "sins" and shaking the religio-political status quo to its very foundation. Meanwhile, traditional churches are watching helplessly as their members defect en masse to the Pentecostal churches.
Just a week ago in Kenya, Bishop Margaret Wanjru's Jesus is Alive Ministries, a Pentecostal church, received Maina Njenga. Njenga is not your normal Sunday service convert but the leader of the Mungiki, an ancestral worship "sect" complete with a political and economic arm that has been linked to brutal killings in Kenya and Mafia-like extortion rings. Njenga's triumphal march -- followed by thousands of Mungiki adherents who had suddenly 'seen the light' -- into Bishop Wanjiru's Nairobi church happened a day after the State dropped murder charges against him....