
Worshippers at a Pentecostal church in Nigeria. The movement has become an increasingly popular sub-group of the Christian church in Africa.

While western societies such as the U.S. are becoming increasingly secular, the church in West Africa has experienced the opposite. Here, faith plays a powerful role in people's lives.

People pray during a seaside church service in a slum in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2016.

A service at a Pentecostal church on New Year's Day in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2014.

Church members dance in thanks to God for the election of Ghana's new President John Atta-Mills during a service in Accra, Ghana, in 2009.

A Sunday service at the Bethel World Outreach Church in Monrovia, Liberia.

Church members of the Bethlehem World Outreach Ministry International in Liberia pray at a Sunday service during the Ebola epidemic.

Catholics re-enact nailing Jesus to the cross and the stations of the cross on Easter Friday in Abidjan, The Ivory Coast, in 2009. There are about 171 million Catholics in sub-Saharan Africa.

Policemen in Benin walk past a sign announcing a mass conducted by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit in 2011.



