Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt, South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela, and Nobel Peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu are among the five black people featured on a list of the 60 most influential Christians, who are living or have lived in the Commonwealth during the Queen’s reign.
“The list celebrates Christians who have excelled in their chosen sphere of endeavour and have, accordingly, been a major influence in the shaping of our world since our Queen came to the throne,” says Premier Christian Radio’s CEO, Peter Kerridge. “We feel it is appropriate, in this Diamond Jubilee Year, to acknowledge their work.”
Other black Christians on the list include Janani Jakaliya Luwum, a former archbishop of the Church of Uganda who was murdered in 1977, and Ugandan Bishop Festo Kivengere, who has been called ‘the Billy Graham of Africa’.
“The list celebrates Christians who have excelled in their chosen sphere of endeavour and have, accordingly, been a major influence in the shaping of our world since our Queen came to the throne,” says Premier Christian Radio’s CEO, Peter Kerridge. “We feel it is appropriate, in this Diamond Jubilee Year, to acknowledge their work.”
Other black Christians on the list include Janani Jakaliya Luwum, a former archbishop of the Church of Uganda who was murdered in 1977, and Ugandan Bishop Festo Kivengere, who has been called ‘the Billy Graham of Africa’.
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