Lecture 11/2/09

During class on Monday we covered significant history of the church as it spread throughout Africa and Asia. Much of what I heard during this lecture was new to me as I have never heard much about how Christianity began or even emerged throughout these regions. We learned about which countries have strong Christian presence and which still have only a minute % of people who profess to be being Christians. One thing that stuck out to me was the reality that even in the countries where there is a more significant amount of the population that is Christian, they still often face persecution. There is even  divisiveness and persecution amongst the different Christian sects in these regions (as I suppose there is as well here in the West when we get right down to it!) - Why can't we all just get along?! Ha!  :-)