Africa's Religious Faultline for Religious Conflict

The Evangelical Alliance Web site introduces a fascinating map concept it calls "Africa's Religious Faultline."

The EA Website notes that "If you take a map of Africa and draw a line from the west coast at the Sierra Leone / Liberia border, east through the centre of Ivory Coast, the centre of Nigeria, the centre of Sudan and on to the Red Sea, then you have very approximately marked Africa's religious 'faultline', where the Muslim (predominantly Arab) north meets the African Christian/non-Muslim south."

PFF has been aware of the Muslim North/non-Muslim South phenomena in several African nations with which we are involved in frontier mission. This African Religious Faultline may be a helpful way to describe a curious and conflictual challenge that our African brothers and sisters have to deal with. Focused prayers on this religious faultline are urgently needed - and for wisdom for our Christian friends who must find ways to proclaim Christ as Savior even across this faultline.

-- Dave Hackett