Berber Christians, or Amazigh Christians are ethnic Berbers who follow Christianity. The term is typically used to refer to the centuries when North Africa...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tifinagh letters. Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping...

people like the Berbers. The treatment and persecution of Christians under Almohad rule was a drastic change as well. Many Christians were killed, forced...

Al-Kahina (Arabic: الكاهنة, lit. 'the diviner'), also known as Dihya, was a Berber warrior-queen of the Aurès and a religious and military leader who lived...

the number of Arab and Berber Christians in Morocco as more than 40,000. Pew-Templeton estimates the number of Moroccan Christians at 20,000. The number...

traditional Berber religion is the sum of ancient and native set of beliefs and deities adhered to by the Berbers. Originally, the Berbers seem to have...

430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His...

present-day Morocco), in the persecutions of Christians under Diocletian. Named after the Berber Christian bishop Donatus Magnus, Donatism flourished during...

Makuria and Alodia and several Christian Berber kingdoms. The Islamic conquests into North Africa brought pressure on Christians to convert to Islam due to...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch...

Christians may offend. Christians do not engage in the foolish worship of the emperors, that they do better: they pray for them, and that Christians can...

Mommsen what is now Mediterranean Algeria was fully Christian by the fifth century. A notable Berber Christian of Algeria was Saint Augustine (and his mother...

Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" (February 24, 303)...

Thagaste (present-day Souk Ahras, Algeria). She is believed to have been a Berber on the basis of her name. She was married early in life to Patricius, a...

romanized: musta‘rab, lit. 'Arabized'), or more precisely Andalusi Christians,: 166  were the Christians of al-Andalus, or the territories of Iberia under Muslim...

paid the jizyah and had some people of Frankish descent among them. Berber Christians continued to live in Tunis and Nefzaoua in the south of Tunisia until...

to 14 September 258 AD) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized...

Edict of Milan. Consequently, Christians not only attained the freedom of worship but also restored all places of Christian worship and returned all confiscated...

Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305). According to Jerome's Chronicle, Arnobius...

communities of Berber Christians, cf., e.g., here above the sections "Firmus and Gildo" and especially "Donatist schism" and "Berber states". A. A. Vasiliev...

" Rachid believes that a Christian "awakening" is happening in the Middle East with many Muslims becoming either Christians or atheists after they find...

the late fifth and early sixth century, the region included several Christian Berber kingdoms. Informal primacy was exercised by the Archdiocese of Carthage...

The Berber Revolt or the Kharijite Revolt of 740–743 AD (122–125 AH in the Islamic calendar) took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn...

day is celebrated on 28 July as "St Victor I, Pope and Martyr". He was of Berber origin. The primary sources vary over the dates assigned to Victor's episcopate...

630 and 637. According to Bede, he was "by nation an African", and thus a Berber native of North Africa, and was abbot of a monastery near Naples, called...

an area settled by people predominantly of Berber descent. During the wave of persecutions of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian, in order to...

Arians (i.e. Non-trinitarian Christians), and therefore perceived as heretics from the perspective of Nicene Christians. There is some confusion regarding...

Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche (c. 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria – July 9, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France) was a poet and folksinger. She...

The Berber calendar (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵙⵡⴰⵙⵜ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ, romanized: taswast tamaziɣt) is the agricultural calendar traditionally used by Berbers (Amazigh...

The Kingdom of the Aurès (Latin: Regnum Aurasium) was an independent Christian Berber kingdom primarily located in the Aurès Mountains of present-day north-eastern...