Nubia-Early Contacts and Conversions to the Christian Faith

Chapter one: Roland Werner's Day of Devastation, Day of Contentment starts out by explaining that present day Sudan encompasses the land of Kush, or Cush. The Old Testament speaks of these people multiple times:

"along the rivers of Cush...gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers...the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty." Isaiah 18

Werner also makes a case that the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26-40) was from the land of Cush. The good news of Christ was "sown in Sudanese soil " before the year 40.

There is not evidence of a Christian community around the time of that convert. By the 6th century, there was a Coptic influence from Egypt, as well as Christian missionaries from the Byzantine empire. This land, called Nubia at the time, went through a conversion process over a few decades and Christianity became the major religion of the time.