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This inquiry seeks to bring together all pertinent factors bearing upon the implantation of the first Christian Mission in a virgin field on the Guinea Coast of West Africa, beginning in 1637. The characteristics of this territory, geographical, anthropological and economic, which welcomed the first members of different missions orders of the Roman Catholic Church, and to which their successors were required to adjust over almost three centuries, culminating in the establishment of the mission in 1895 and its growth during its first quarter-century, are examined. Special emphasis is laid upon the impetus to growth which was given by the ministry, 1913 to 1915, of a Liberian claiming, and to an extent, at least among the local people, convincingly, to exercise the gift of prophecy. The priests sought to win his converts, estimated conservatively to be about 100,000 souls, without identifying themselves with Harris himself, gaining thousands by 1920, and contributing to the recognition of the Roman Catholic Church as the largest Christian confession in the present independant Republic of Cote d'Ivoire. Underlying this missiological process, were the relations which both the priests and Harris were required to cultivate with political authorities, first African then European, until French authority over the territory was firmly established in the nineteenth century, colonial administration being inaugurated in 1893, and finally being superceded by the Republic in 1960. ; Diese Untersuchung forscht nach allen Faktoren, die ab 1637 eine Einwirkung auf die eventuelle Entstehung der christlichen Mission in einem neuentdeckten Feld auf der Guineaküste von Westafrika hatten. Die Charakteristika dieses Gebietes, die geographischen, anthropologischen und wirtschaftlichen, die die Mitglieder der verschiedenen Missionsorden der römisch-katholischen Kirche begrüßten und welchen sich die Bahnbrecher und ihre Nachfolger über fast drei Jahrhunderte aneignen mussten, sind im missiologischen Zusammenhang ergründet worden. ...

Von den weltweit 40 Mio. von HIV/AIDS betroffenen Menschen leben allein 25,8 Mio. in Afrika. Der Kampf gegen AIDS markiert angesichts solcher Dimensionen ein Zeichen der Zeit für die Notwendigkeit globaler Zusammenarbeit für Heil und Befreiung vor Ort. Vertreter von Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen und der Industrie, der Kirchen und der Politik sowie der Theologie aus Afrika und Europa sind im Oktober 2006 zu einem an der Universität Würzburg veranstalteten internationalen, ökumenischen Symposion zusammengekommen, um Ursachen und Folgen der Pandemie in Afrika in ihrer globalen Bedeutung reflektieren und die missionarische Herausforderung sachgerecht thematisieren zu können, die AIDS sowohl für die Pastoral der Kirchen als auch für die Theologie darstellt.

"For not integrating initially some of the good elements in Igbo culture. many Igbo Christians have double personality - Christian personality and traditional personality. They are Christians on Sundays but traditionalists on weekdays" (pp. 210 - 211). To combat such an anomalous situation, in imitation of Christ`s effort at completing what was lacking in the Jewish religion, Udoye proposes radical inculturation. His book equally contains many serious theological reflections such that it recommends itself to both theologians and the scholars researching on the religions of the world. Edwin Udoye has therefore made a very significant contribution worthy of commendation to both theological and religious studies.