Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 2 February 2017
EU migrant policy in Africa built on incorrect Niger data
(Kristy Siegfried, Libya Tribune)
South Africa: SA faiths must unite against extremism - Rasool
(Jenna Etheridge, News 24)
Wednesday, 1 February 2017
African leaders discuss 'collective' withdrawal from ICC
(News24Wire via AllAfrica)
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
With Morocco's return, African Union now complete
(Amanda Hoover, The Christian Science Monitor)
British taxpayers funding illegal abortions in Africa
(The Christian Institute)
Friday, 27 January 2017
Nigeria: Sudan to support Nigeria combat terrorism
(All Africa)
Liberia: Department of Islamic Affairs?
(William Q. Harmon, allAfrica)
Ghana: AFC issues US $150 million maiden Islamic bond
(allAfrica)
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Nigeria: U.S. to partner Nigeria on religious freedom
(Abdullateef Salau, Daily Trust via AllAfrica)
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Opinion: Obama’s legacy in Africa: terrorism, civil war & military expansion
(Eric Draitser, Mint Press News)
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Traditionalist blames crime, corruption on negligence of African traditional religion
(Vanguard)
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Why Saudi Arabia and Egypt are competing for influence in Africa
(Ayah Aman, Egypt Pulse)
South Africa: attacks on mosques an attack on democracy
(FW De Klerk Foundation, News 24)
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Nationalism in Asia, Islamic extremism in Africa – the 2017 World Watch List
(World Watch Monitor)
Thursday, 5 January 2017
How women of the Central African Republic overcome trauma by trading
(Helene Fisher, World Watch Monitor)
Central African Republic Christians, Muslims unite to heal trauma
(Zack Baddorf, Reuters)
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Nigeria: Stop using ethnicity, religion to divide Nigeria, Sultan warns
(Christopher Isiguzo, This Day via AllAfrica)
Monday, 19 December 2016
A prison class in African religion attracts students beyond its walls
(Lisa W. Foderaro, The New York Times)
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa are twice as likely as Christians to have no formal education
(David McClendon, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
‘Uganda: Who is to blame for traditional schools losing value?
(Dr Josue Okoth, The Monitor via AllAfrica)
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Mauritius: International Human Rights Day 2016 - Workshop for Members of the Human Rights Technical Committee
(All Africa)
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Donors pledge $2.2bn to help Central African Republic recover
(World Watch Monitor)
Thursday, 24 November 2016
EVENT, 10-24 November 2016: Cycle of meetings in Rovereto: “Is this about God?” A comparison between African fundamentalisms
(The Center for Religious Studies FBK-ISR)
Thursday, 3 November 2016
South African activists call for legal recognition of Muslim marriages
(Jen Thorpe, News Deeply)
Fleeing anti-Semitism in France, an African Jewish family makes aliyah
(Cnaan Lipshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
African Union, KAICIID hold 2nd interfaith dialogue forum
(Chris Ochayi, Vanguard)
Friday, 28 October 2016
African Union hearing on child slaves hailed as milestone for Mauritania
(Kate Hodal, The Guardian)
U.N. officials slam Mauritania for stifling anti-slavery activists
(The North Africa Post)
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Climate change will heat up West Africa's religious conflicts – and a whole lot more
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Gay Muslims: This RNS feature offers one-sided coverage of a retreat in South Africa
(Jim Davis, GetReligion)
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Islamic State in Africa tries to lure members from al-Shabaab
(Heidi Vogt, The Wall Street Journal (paywall))
Friday, 21 October 2016
How decent data can help African girls overcome second class status
(Yassin Brunger, The Conversation)
Monday, 17 October 2016
Dangerous echoes of the past as church and state move closer in South Africa
(Dion Forster, The Conversation)
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Priest is among casualties in South African student protests
(Christopher Torchia, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Scores killed in outbreaks of violence in C. African Republic
(World Watch Monitor)
Wednesday, 5 October 2016
South African Anglicans regroup after defeat of same-sex blessing measure
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Muslim rebels murder 6 Christians in door-to-door raid in Central African Republic
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Rising Islamist militancy across Sahel belt threatens African Christianity
(World Watch Monitor)
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Tech inspired by faith booms in Africa
(Zoe Kleinman, BBC)
Saturday, 3 September 2016
New Smithsonian museum features stories of African-American faith
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
As Gulen movement contracts in Africa, worry over who will fill the vacuum
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
African expat nabbed by new anti-evangelism law: Pentecostal from Ghana fined for illegal evangelism in Tver
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Monday, 29 August 2016
Why the new interfaith centre in Kaduna is a crucial symbol for interreligious peace in Nigeria
(Cynthia Okoroafor, Ventures Africa)
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Brazil’s African faiths beat back attempt to exclude them from Olympics
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Olympic Village now includes Brazilian-African religions with others
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Friday, 12 August 2016
What happened when the Olympic committee tried to exclude Brazil’s African faiths
(Janet Tappin Coelho, Religion News Service)
Friday, 5 August 2016
Gambia: J-22 and religion - let there be light
(Momodou Sabally, All Africa)
Monday, 1 August 2016
Muslim community takes a page from African-American churches to get out the vote
(Chas Sisk, NPR)
Thursday, 28 July 2016
Ban on women singing at South Africa Holocaust memorial ceremony dropped
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Evangelism and education discussed in consultation in South Africa
(World Council of Churches)
South African church leaders appeal for calm ahead of elections
(Anli Serfontein, World Council of Churches)
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
French priest’s murder ‘horrifies’, but in Africa alone, many church attacks and leaders killed
(World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 25 July 2016
African-American archbishop to chair US bishops’ task force on race
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
Friday, 22 July 2016
African-American archbishop to chair US bishops’ task force on race
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Olympics media village built on 'sacred' mass grave of African slaves
(Daniel Gross and Jonathan Watts, The Guardian)
Monday, 18 July 2016
Religious fanatics, the fire this time
(Uche Ezechukwu, African Herald Express)
Friday, 15 July 2016
South Africa’s vote against internet freedom tarnishes its global image
(Penelope Andrews, The Conversation)
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
'ISIS-inspired' plan to blow up Jewish, American institutions in South Africa revealed
(Haaretz)
Twin converts to Islam charged with plot to blow up Jewish institutions in South Africa
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Monday, 11 July 2016
In chastising the US, African cardinals are voice of the future
(Thomas D. Williams, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
How African-American church leaders are responding to new challenges
(Tom Gjelten, NPR)
EVENT, 11-15 July 2016: Third Joint Conference of Academic Societies in the Fields of Religion and Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
(University of Pretoria)
Friday, 8 July 2016
African Union to withdraw troops from Somalia by 2020
(Elias Meseret, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Thursday, 7 July 2016
6 facts about religious hostilities in the Middle East and North Africa
(Katayoun Kishi and Angelina E. Theodorou, Pew Research Center)
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
South African cardinal calls US abortion rate a black ‘genocide’
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Somalia: Somali religious leaders denounce gender ministry new law
(All Africa)
Friday, 24 June 2016
“It’s time to recognize pan African women’s leadership in global ecumenism,” say WCC women leaders
(Kristine Greenaway, World Council of Churches)
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Is Africa’s emerging superpower on the brink of religious war?
(Matt Hadro, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 20 June 2016
Adrift: The invisible African diaspora
(reported by Abdulaziz Osman and Nicolas Pinault, edited by Pete Cobus, Voice of America)
Friday, 17 June 2016
Liberia: Baptist seminary sale - court holds religious entity for debt
(All Africa)
Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Where is the ‘African’ in African Studies?
(Robtel Neajai Pailey, African Arguments)
Monday, 6 June 2016
Sacking clergy the South African way: Fortuin v Church of Christ
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Friday, 3 June 2016
Kenya: Religions should promote peace and tolerance - Muturi
(Joseph Muraya, All Africa)
AAU hosts African Conference on Law and Religion
(Addis Ababa University)
Nigeria: Women want more involvement in peace efforts
(Balarabe Alkassim, All Africa)
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
With Africa trip, Turkey's Erdogan aims to quash influence of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen
(Orhan Coskun and Tulay Karadeniz, Reuters)
Friday, 27 May 2016
U.S. increases antiterrorism exercises with African militaries
(Helene Cooper, The New York Times)
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
EVENT, 22-24 May 2016: Fourth ACLARS Conference: "Religious Pluralism, Heritage, and Social Development in Africa"
(hosted by the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)
Monday, 23 May 2016
Pope meets Egypt's Grand Imam, sign of renewed interfaith relations
(Africa News)
Mpho Tutu forced to quit priesthood in South Africa over same-sex marriage
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
African Methodists worry about the church that brought them Christianity
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Central African Republic: CSW welcomes Interfaith Partnership for Peace
(Independent Catholic News)
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
African churches commit to working for the elimination of statelessness
(World Council of Churches)
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Egypt: Draft law on construction of places of worship presented to Parliament
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Monday, 16 May 2016
Predicting how US and African Methodists will square off over homosexuality
(Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Gleanings)
Thursday, 12 May 2016
“An Action Plan for Africa” on the role of religious leaders in preventing incitement to violence
(KAICIID)
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
What's the point of Africa's macabre ritual killings?
(Conor Gaffey, Newsweek)
Monday, 9 May 2016
Persecuted Christians in North Africa receive smuggled Bibles
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Friday, 6 May 2016
African religious leaders work on preventing incitement to violence
(World Council of Churches)
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Foiled Kenya anthrax plot hints at Islamic State’s scramble for Africa
(Ty McCormick, Foreign Policy)
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
EVENT, 21-26 April 2016: FLAG 2016 South Africa: "Walking With Integrity" - Pretoria, South Africa
(Faith and Law Around the Globe)
Monday, 25 April 2016
Desmond Tutu urges South Africans not to fear speaking out against injustice
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Friday, 8 April 2016
Anglican Consultative Council begins with discussion of ‘consequences’: Episcopal Church’s three members present for 16th ACC gathering in Africa
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
Monday, 28 March 2016
'I did not check their religion': Priest earns praise, threats for saving thousands from violence in Africa
(Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News)
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Côte d'Ivoire attack: why terrorists are targeting Francophone Africa
(Berny Sèbe, The Conversation)
Friday, 18 March 2016
How schooling can save African girls from becoming child brides
(Michael Addaney, The Conversation)
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Al Qaeda's branch in Africa makes a lethal comeback
(Dionne Searcey, Eric Schmitt, and Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times)
AQIM: West Africa Rivals of Islamic State
(Deutsche Welle)
Nigeria: No religion, culture prohibits women from adquiring education
(allAfrica)
Monday, 14 March 2016
Egypt's justice minister sacked after comments criticised as blasphemous
(Reporting Mostafa Hashem and Haithem Ahmed; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein and Lin Noueihed; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Stephen Powell, Reuters Africa)
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