Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 29 November 2013
UN consensus builds to send force to Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor, Christianity Today Australia)
Thursday, 28 November 2013
French court upholds scarf dismissal
(AFP, iafrica.com)
Monday, 25 November 2013
Nigeria: Boko Haram attacks not inspired by religion - Badeh
(Solomon Ayado, All Africa)
Sunday, 10 November 2013
No ban on gov’t officials traveling to Israel, South African Cabinet says
(JTA)
Friday, 8 November 2013
First woman and African moderator elected to the WCC Central Committee
(World Council of Churches)
Monday, 4 November 2013
Central African Republic: Religious tinderbox
(BBC News Africa)
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
The rise of Islamist Militancy in East Africa: Al Qaeda’s Next Target?
(Ahmed Salah Hashim, RSIS)
Hindus worldwide upset at ‘trivialization’ of Lord Ganesh in South Africa newspaper
(Eurasia Review)
Monday, 28 October 2013
Somalia's al-Shabab commanders 'killed' in strike
(BBC News Africa)
African liberation a vehicle for westernization
(Morris DC Komakech, The Independent)
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Clerics call on UN military force to secure Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 21 October 2013
Ethiopian immigrants create an Israeli tradition out of Africa
(Roy (Chicky) Arad, Haaretz)
Friday, 11 October 2013
Many of 250 drowned migrants were African Christians fleeing persecution
(Kate Tracy, Christianity Today)
Monday, 7 October 2013
Religious order urges action to stem chaos in Central African Republic
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Catholic clerics mugged at gunpoint in Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Kenya: religious leaders call for Oct 1 prayers
(Jemimah Wangui, All Africa)
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Nigeria: Religious re-education
(Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua, Daily Trust via AllAfrica)
Monday, 23 September 2013
Cameroon: youths focus on inter-religious dialogue
(Branda Y Nchewnang-Ngassa, All Africa)
Kenya mall carnage shows Shabab resilience
(Nicholas Kulish, Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt, The New York Times Africa)
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
African countries pledge to tackle terrorism
(Hayam El Hadi, Magharebia)
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
10 years after Gene Robinson, African Anglicans to take stock
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Monday, 26 August 2013
Pope calls for anti-human trafficking meeting
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Ancient African religion finds roots in America
(Christopher Johnson, NPR)
Monday, 19 August 2013
Dartmouth nixes hire of African bishop on past gay rights stance
(Daniel Lovering, Reuters FaithWorld)
Thursday, 15 August 2013
African Religious Liberty Congress promotes peaceful coexistence
(Adventist News Network)
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Cameroon: gov't hunts illegal churches
(Brenda Y. Nchewnang-Ngassa, All Africa)
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Top pastor’s arrest adds to Christians’ concerns in Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Nigeria and the girl child bride: Culture, constitution and religion
(Mary Ajoke Akangbe, Africa on the Blog)
Monday, 5 August 2013
Liberia: LP identifies with Muslims - executive official says party above religious divide
(J. Edwood N. Dennis, The Analyst via All Africa)
LP identifies with Muslims—executive official says party above religious divide
(Edwood Dennis, All Africa)
Friday, 2 August 2013
African chief evangelizes about adult circumcision
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Religion News Service)
Monday, 29 July 2013
Former ICPC Chair blames religious tension on politicians
(All Africa)
Nigeria: Senate, religion and child marriage law
(All Africa)
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Putin concerned about violation of rights of Orthodox Christians in Mideast, N. Africa
(Interfax)
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Ethiopia: Religions encouraged to advance nation building
(Zeryhun Kassa, Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency via All Africa)
Friday, 19 July 2013
World abandons C. African Republic in hour of need, MSF says
(World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 15 July 2013
Jonathan says religious, ethnic intolerance will divide Nigeria
(Maryam Ahmadu-Suka, All Africa)
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Egypt and North Africa's religious tumult
(Ahmed Charai, The National Interest)
Monday, 8 July 2013
Educated Muslim women challenged to know their religion
(Ludovick Kazoka, All Africa)
Monday, 1 July 2013
International effort seeks to counter jihadists in Africa
(Eric Schmitt, The New York Times)
Monday, 17 June 2013
African-Americans and gay marriage–its complicated
(Michel Martin, NPR)
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Egypt: Author sentenced to five years for insulting religion
(allAfrica)
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Lay preacher turned union boss wages South African class war
(Reuters)
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Nigerians urged to shun religious bigotry
(Abdullateef Aliyu, All Africa)
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
In Africa, evangelicals join war against AIDS
(Cathleen Falsani, Orange County Register)
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Ethiopia: Dissenting voices take to the streets
(Konye Obaji Ori, The Africa Report)
Friday, 31 May 2013
Moroccan Salafist slams Tunisia’s Ennahda
(Mohamed Saadouni, All Africa)
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Malawi: Ngaunja commends government for upholding freedom of worship
(Andrew Silumbu, AllAfrica via Malawi News Agency)
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
No favouritism in subsidising religious hospitals, minister says
(Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam), All Africa)
Monday, 27 May 2013
Nigeria: First Lady seeks end to teenage pregnancies in Africa
(Uche Uduma, All Africa)
Nigeria: Lagos schools, Hijab and the sovereignty of the state
(Adelou Ademoyo, All Africa)
Friday, 24 May 2013
Religious defamation charges reflect practices of authoritarian regimes, says Egyptian politician
(Christian Post Africa)
Monday, 20 May 2013
Tunisia's last Jews at ease despite troubled past
(BBC News Africa)
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Africa, Asia see boom in priests as Europe withers
(Nicole Winfield, ABC News via AP)
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Africa: Global survey aims to equip Anglicans to engage in Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Tradition, religion holding back Africa's progress
(Ferdinand Berkhof, MmegiOnline)
South Africa: Government encourages freedom of children's religious and ethnic rights
(All Africa)
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Government encourages freedom of children's religious and ethnic rights
(Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), South African Government Information)
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Political Islam is post-Gaddafi Libya
(James Maxwell, Think Africa Press)
Thursday, 2 May 2013
What are you? A review of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora by Emily Raboteau
(David F. Evans, The Revealer (NYU))
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
El Ghriba, Africa's oldest synagogue, welcomes Jewish pilgrims back to Tunisia amidst tight security
(Tarek Amara, Reuters)
Monday, 29 April 2013
El Ghriba, Africa's oldest synagogue, welcomes Jewish pilgrims back to Tunisia amidst tight security
(Tarek Amara, Huffington Post Religion)
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Homosexuality: What you must know
(Paul Bupe, The Times of Zambia via All Africa)
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Protesters ‘intimidate’ South African Jews
(Sam Sokol, The Jerusalem Post)
Church shelled, seven Christians killed in Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 15 April 2013
Higher education for displaced people in Africa with UNHCR-JRS initiative
(Bernadine Racoma, Day News)
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
South Africa gay 'cure' school found guilty of human rights violation
(Dan Littauer, Gay Star News)
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Advocating for peace and religious liberty in the Central African Republic
(ANN Video Full Episode - April 5, 2013, Adventist News Network)
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Africa finds an effective weapon against AIDS: religion
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Egypt: Coptic Christians must be protected from sectarian violence
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Anxiety high as rebels take over Central African Republic
(World Watch Monitor, Christian Today)
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Africa: New priorities for the Anglican Witness core group
(Revd John Kafwanka, Anglican Communion News Service)
Liberia's Muslims protest, want Christians' petition trashed, two holidays in Liberia
(Al- Varney Rogers, Front Page Africa)
Important milestone for KAICIID: Launch of multi-religious collaboration for the survival and wellbeing of children in Uganda, Africa
(Sonja Reingrabner, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Diolague)
Pope Francis makes inaugural appeal for peace after coup in Central African Republic
(Associated Press, Fox News)
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Catholic church committed to recovering of infrastructures
(Angola Press via All Africa)
Swaziland: Riot police force halt prayer meeting
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Namibia: National framework on gender equality for churches
(Selma Shipanga, The Namibian via All Africa)
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Ghana cautioned against homosexuality
(Sebastian R. Freiku, The Chronicle via All Africa)
Ghana: Archbishop Palmer Buckle blasts police
(Issah Alhassan, The Chronicle via All Africa)
Kenya: Kitui bishop tells media to help in war on graft
(Musembi Nzengu, The Star via AllAfrica)
Kenya: Muslim cleric says new president will protect rights of all Kenyans
(Brian Otieno, The Star via AllAfrica)
Monday, 11 March 2013
Conservative brand of Catholicism thrives in Africa
(Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times)
Nigeria: Jibwis to establish Islamic varsity in Jos
(Ahmed Mohammed, Daily Trust via All Africa)
Liberia: Christians to petition lawmakers- want Liberia constitutionalized constitutionalism a Christian nation
(The New Republic Liberia via All Africa)
Zimbabwe: Govt probes Satanism claims in schools
(The Standard via All Africa)
Nigeria: Sultan under fire over Islamists amnesty call
(Sam Eyoboka, Vanguard via All Africa)
Friday, 8 March 2013
Voices from Catholic Africa: Church modernization is a mistake
(Elias Biryabarema, Reuters)
Madagascar: Nun killed in Mandritsara
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Nigeria: Bishops call for the defense of human dignity
(Catholic Information Service for Africa via All Africa)
Kenya holds peaceful elections despite anxiety
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Zambia: Ndola church defies council's eviction order
(Xavier Manchishi, Times of Zambia via All Africa)
Kenya: Clergy asks presidential losers to accept defeat
(Francis Mureithi, The Star via All Africa)
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Eritrea jails 125 Christians in campaign against ‘illegal’ worship
(Stefan J. Bos, BosNewsLife Africa Service)
Religious leaders attend capacity building seminar
(Angola Press via All Africa)
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
South Africa: To all those calling for religion in schools...
(MerryMartin, News24)
Uganda: Mormons in media drive
(Polly Kamukama, The Observer via All Africa)
Zambia: Kabwe church wanted blood- witness
(Sylvia Mweetwa, Times of Zambia via All Africa)
Tanzania: Fifty Ponda followers released on bail
(Faustine Kapama, Tanzania Daily News via All Africa)
Uganda: Mukono school closed for teaching one subject
(Henry Nsubuga, The New Vision via All Africa)
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