Out of South Sudan’s population of over 12 million there are an estimated 7,462,064 Christians, 728,178 of whom are adherents to Pentecostal/Charismatic (P/C) churches. However, as even the best statistics about South Sudan are approximations from very limited data, attempts at the P/C population have limited usefulness: even before the death and displacement from the present war (2013 onward), not only is there a dearth of literature on P/C in South Sudan, but there is no reliable estimate for South Sudan’s population more generally.

Nonetheless, Christianity can certainly cla…