Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development

Migration which involves human movement from one place to the other is a human phenomenon which has become a necessary tool for religious expansion, Christianity inclusive. The Christian Church which traces its origin from Palestine got to Europe and other parts of the globe by the effort and sacrifice of people who migrated from their original places of abode to their new places of residence. This work used the qualitative and descriptive methods of data collection and analysis, and in arriving at our findings, the phenomenological approach was adopted and our finding revealed that migration is as old as mankind. In fact Christianity travelled from the Middle East, to Europe and eventually got to Africa through the effort of migrants. The agents of this movement being none other, than those referred to as the missionaries constitute the migrants; and till date the Gospel message has been spread by these missionary migrants who left their homes to their mission fields for the purpose of evangelization.

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