In 1900, there were 9.6 million Christians in Africa. As of 2025, there are over 754 million. This alone is a staggering figure. But it’s even more significant as we examine it in relation to Christianity in other regions of the globe. With just under 552 million Christians in Europe, just under 417 million in Asia, and 620 million in Latin America, Africa already leads the Christian world in terms of population. And it is set to keep growing.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world currently exceeding the population replacement birth rate, which is also encouraging for African Christianity, as believing parents have more children and raise them as Christians. While these numbers do not assess the vitality and strength of the faith of those they are counting – considering that African churches are standing stronger than Western churches on key, contested biblical truths of marriage and family – at least on this issue, the convictional level of Christianity is higher in Africa than in the West. Of course, the above doesn’t account for how the Lord may move in these regions and bring revival, but these numbers represent the current state of Christianity globally.

Europe and the lands it settled have predominated as the centre of global Christianity for hundreds of years, giving birth to biblically-influenced arts, science, and education, the Reformation, America’s own founding, and sending missionaries around the globe – including to Africa within the last two centuries.

But the West has not kept pace. Over the past 100 years, Christianity has faded in the lands that once cultivated it. Even more, a subtle and dangerous shift has developed in the last several decades — the West has begun to actively work against biblical principles in the lands to which it once sent missionaries. Perhaps no subject loomed larger over the Pan-African Conference for Family Values, held May 12-14 in Nairobi, Kenya, than what the West has done to target the African family in recent years. 

NOW THE WEST IS ACTIVELY WORKING AGAINST CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA

The Chairperson of the Africa Christian Professionals Forum, Mrs. Ann Mbugua said, “The fight for the family must continue. The family is too precious to be left unattended, to be attacked from all corners.”

As far as the Africans at this conference are concerned, the West has been actively working against their families. Their primary source of pain is that the boatloads of money that have been pumped into the continent to kill their unborn children (by promoting abortion) and attack the integrity of the human person and undermine marriage and family (by promoting LGBT ideology). Not only that, but how this money is coming in is coercive. African government leaders are having their arms twisted by Western diplomats and NGOs and told that if they don’t agree to allow abortion and LGBT ideology, they aren’t going to get the financial aid they often so desperately need. At the conference, one Kenyan leader said that “the week after Biden was elected” in 2020, LGBT groups and advocacy efforts “showed up” in the country.

The good news is that the Pan African Conference for Family Values brought solidarity between the African believers called to defend God’s word in the public spaces, and those in the United States with a similar call. The American believers said it was tremendously encouraging to be with their African brothers and sisters and know that we are in this together, as we lock arms with the joy and presence of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, we know God wants to perfect his church — his body — and it is a global body. The Pan-African Conference on Family Values saw this unification of the Body of Christ that our God desires continue in a fresh new way. The question is: in the west, do we have the courage and conviction to do it?