ABSTRACT
Centre International d’Evangélisation is an Evangelical and international movement which has its headquarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was founded in 1977 by Mamadou Philippe Karambiri and his wife Marie Sophie Karambiri and officially registered on 9 December 1987. It is the first and largest church founded by a native Burkinabè in the country. Since its inception, Centre International d’Evangélisation has not only opened many other branches in the country but also in other African countries and in the diaspora, with branches in France and the United States of America. In this chapter, I discuss the origins of the church, its mission and some of its key contributions to the socio-religious and economic development of the country.
