by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
Christian outreach in the 20th cent. Started with the vision of Grattan Guinness and Karl Kumm. It was their ambition to reach the unreached peoples of the whole Sudan Belt. Therefore they founded the Sudan Pioneer Mission in Aswan in 1900 and employed among others a...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
In terms of their religious preference and convictions the Nubians are faithful adherents of Sunni Islam of the Melkite theological school. Yet, many Nubians still participate in folk Islamic and Animistic practices and a considerable number of men are adherents of...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
The motives which led to the Christianization of Nubia (in the 6th cent.) are much debatable. The Roman emperor Justinian had obviously political reasons, his wife Theodora had more religious ambitions (monophysitic theology). The Nubian church remained dependent on...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
It is an interesting fact that the Nubians were Christians for almost 1000 years in the Middle Ages. The Nubians of today happily admit their Christian past. The Nubian kingdoms (Nobadia in the north with its capital Faras; Makuria with its capital Old Dongola and...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
There is no doubt, that a resurgence of ethnic identity among the various Nubian subgroups in connection with the resettlement policies of the 1960s is taking place. The traumatic event of the resettlement can be considered the main cause for the renaissance among the...
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