Source: The Seattle Times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001906397_churches18.html

On April 23, 2004 The Seattle Times reported, "About 500 worshippers, many from Ghana, filled the Church of the Pentecost in the Bronx on Palm Sunday. Each Sunday, in more than 100 New York churches, pastors preach the Gospel in languages such as Ibo, Twi and Ga. Conga drums drive songs of praise. Swaths of kente cloth cover bodies swaying in the pews. An explosion of African-immigrant churches in the past 15 years has helped reshape religious worship in the city. The surge is creating oases of Christian faith for newcomers from Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Ethiopia and other countries and fueling an evangelical movement long the province of Latinos and African Americans... According to census figures, New York's African population doubled from 1980 to 1990, and again before 2000, when 95,000 African-born people were counted. The number probably is higher because the count does not include more recent arrivals and many illegal immigrants."