The Acts of the Apostles describes how the faith spread. Because of the persecution it first was preached to the Samaritans, alienated members of the chosen people. In Chapter 8 St. Luke tells us how belief made it to Africa. There was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the queen of the Ethiopians, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning home. As an African and as someone who was mutilated the official was doubly excluded. When the deacon Philip explains faith in Jesus he immediately realized he belonged and sought baptism. All were welcomed into the Christian fellowship. According to tradition the official brought the faith back to African with him and in time what we know today as Coptic Christianity developed in Ethiopia, Eriteria and Egypt. African was the first daughter of the Palestinian church.
