Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 30 September 2024
South African archbishop Makgoba lashes government for education 'funding crisis'
(Ecumenical News)
Friday, 27 September 2024
Senegal: Church leaders and laity ‘outraged’ by PM Sonko’s remarks on headscarf ban
(Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Sudan: Women from Africa and the diaspora call for action to protect women and girls in Sudan from conflict-related sexual violence
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Friday, 20 September 2024
African faith leaders and environmentalists push for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
South Sudan: Citizens, international bodies and church express disappointment over election delay
(Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Malawi: Catholic church supports Malawi Law Society’s demonstration for judicial reforms
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Friday, 6 September 2024
Black Visions of the Holy Land: African American Christian Engagement with Israel and Palestine
(Roger Baumann, Columbia University Press)
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
AFJN launches ‘Unity Through Diversity’ peace project in Eastern Congo (includes audio for new song “Tuishing Pamoja” (Let’s Live Together”)
(Africa Faith and Justice Network)
Friday, 30 August 2024
Nigeria: Bishops urge President Tinubu to reassess economic policies, consider return to regional system of government
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Mozambique: Archbishop Dalla Zuanna urges political leaders to focus on peace and policy ahead of October elections
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
South Africa: Religious freedom and women's rights
(YouTube Video, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
South Africa: Dangers of state regulation of religion
(YouTube Video, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Why are several African countries attacking freedom of religion?
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Monday, 19 August 2024
Kenya: In inaugural lecture at Jesuit University in Kenya, Vatican Cardinal explores evolution of power in Church, society
(Jude Atemanke and João Vissesse, ACI Africa)
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Sharing experiences from civil society engagements and contributions towards preventing and responding to unconstitutional changes of government in West Africa:
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Monday, 12 August 2024
South African bishops warn of growing ISIS threat
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 2 August 2024
Rwanda: Closure of non-compliant faith-based organisations - What are the essential requirements?
(Joan Mbabazi, All Africa)
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
As Russia builds influence in Africa, its Church takes a role
(Andrew Hoyle, The United States Institute of Peace)
Monday, 29 July 2024
Cardinal: Without church, there would be 'no life, no hope and no future' for many Africans
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Angelus)
South Africa: Parental rights and CSE in schools - July 25 2024
(YouTube Video, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Wednesday, 24 July 2024
In Africa, what is the role of faith leaders in promoting democracy?
(World Council of Churches)
African faith leaders call for debt forgiveness in 2025 Jubilee year
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Namibia: “Let us make our voices heard through the ballots,” Bishops Rally Voter Participation ahead of November General Elections
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Monday, 22 July 2024
How and why family health is a religious concern: A West African experience with international cooperation
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Friday, 19 July 2024
Angola: Let’s cultivate “justice, peace, the very dignity of the human person”: Archbishop to Angola’s justice, peace officials
(João Vissesse, ACI Africa)
Zambia: Church condemns escalating lawlessness and targeted political intolerance against opposition lawmakers
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Kenya’s Catholic Bishops warn of “intolerance, anarchy” as youths remain hell-bent on anti-government protests
(Agnes Aineah, ACI Africa)
Monday, 15 July 2024
Nigeria bishops warn EU deal could push abortion, gender rights on Africa
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 12 July 2024
How faith-based projects are helping to stem Africa’s growing eco-anxiety
(Cyril Zenda, Religion Unplugged)
Friday, 5 July 2024
Kenya: ‘Politics in this country will have to change,’ says Nuncio Bert Van Megan after June 25 protests
(Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
CAR: Bishops in Central African Republic say country will rise from ‘scars of history’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Thailand: President of the WFB met the permanent observer of the Holy See and President of UNESCO African Committee of Memory of World
(The World Fellowship of Buddhists)
Friday, 28 June 2024
Kenya: Religious leaders in solidarity with ‘Gen-Z’ led protests rejecting Finance Bill 2024, condemn use of excessive force by police
(Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Monday, 24 June 2024
Papal charity flags Islamic extremism in Africa’s Sahel as major threat
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Africa’s challenges to peace and security: Interreligious approaches and promise
(JoAnne Wadsworth, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
Friday, 21 June 2024
South Africa: Parental rights discussion (video)
(YouTube Video, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Indigenous and African-descent Religious Leaders meet in Belém, Brazil to discuss issues with IF20, part of G20 Social
(G20 Interfaith Forum)
Monday, 17 June 2024
Nigeria: Popular cleric Fr Mbaka urges government action on minimum wage deadlock to prevent crisis
(Linet Maina, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Kenya president joins Pope Francis in calling for end of conflicts in Africa
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 10 June 2024
South Africa: Saffron in the rainbow nation: Hindu nationalism’s presence in South Africa
(Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Religion Unplugged)
S. African bishops urge politicians - 'work together' - after governing party loses 30-year long majority
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Mozambique: Locals tell stories of Christians killed for their faith: “They are our martyrs”
(João Vissesse, ACI Africa)
Friday, 7 June 2024
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
DRC: Attacks by Islamists in DR Congo increase in East of African country
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
South Africa: Catholic bishops laud ‘free and fair elections,’ urge party leaders to put ideologies aside for common good of country in coalition talks
(Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Monday, 3 June 2024
United Methodists to lose 12% of global membership as African churches exit over LGBTQ-friendly move
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Friday, 31 May 2024
South Africa: Exploited South African miners turn to churches for help
(Nyasha Bhobo, Christianity Today)
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
South Africa: Hate Speech Act Discussion (video)
(YouTube Video, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Christian leaders across Africa oppose bill seeking to repeal Gambia's FGM ban
(Ekpali Saint, Religion Unplugged)
Monday, 20 May 2024
Brazil: Just like Anitta, terreiros of African-based religions in Rio suffer from attacks of religious intolerance (Portuguese)
(Thayná Rodrigues and Giulia Ventura, O Globo)
Friday, 17 May 2024
Madagascar’s Catholic bishops fault bill to castrate child rapists as “against human dignity”
(Jude Atemanke, ACI Africa)
Monday, 13 May 2024
South Africa: Christianity is changing in South Africa as pentecostal and indigenous churches grow – what’s behind the trend
(Dion Forster, The Conversation)
Friday, 10 May 2024
Kenya: “We need to locate the chains of corruption in order to break them,” declare faith leaders and experts at LCMC Conference
(Wesley Omondi, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
South Africa: Ramaphosa signs bill barring hate crimes, hate speech into law
(Sunday World)
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
South Africa: Government department scorecard
(Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
South Africa: Bishops decry state of targeted killings of clergy as another priest is gunned down in Pretoria
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Friday, 26 April 2024
South Africa: Parliament Voting Scorecard
(Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA))
Friday, 19 April 2024
EVENT, 25-27 June 2024: One Family under God: Empowering African Renaissance as a Global Catalyst for Freedom, Peace and Sustainable Development (Nairobi, Kenya)
(Inter-Religious Council of Kenya (IRCK))
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Witch hunting and religious freedom in Africa
(Leo Igwe, Modern Ghana)
Friday, 12 April 2024
Interreligious dialogue needed to encourage peace in Africa: experts
(Carol Glatz, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Religion in Africa: High tolerance for other faiths
(Kate Hairsine, Deutsche Welle)
Friday, 5 April 2024
Gabon Archbishop says National Dialogue to lay the groundwork for African country’s future
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 29 March 2024
The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
(Malika Zeghal, Princeton University Press)
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
EVENT, 26 March 2024 (12:30PM ET): The Role of Religion in Resilient Societies: Lesson’s from Africa’s Development Journey (Cambridge, MA, USA)
(Harvard Law School)
Monday, 25 March 2024
Guinea Bissau: Religious leaders in Guinea Bissau decry surge in attacks on places of worship
(João Vissesse, ACI Africa)
Saturday, 23 March 2024
Documentary shows Christian revival in Africa, Brazil; aims to spark religious interest
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Friday, 15 March 2024
South Africa threatens to arrest dual nationals fighting in Israeli army
(Middle East Monitor)
3 Egyptian Coptic church monks are killed in an attack at a monastery in South Africa
(Gerald Imray, Associated Press)
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Sierra Leone: Africa's high tolerance for other faiths
(Kate Hairsine, Deutsche Welle)
South Africa: Three Egyptian Coptic monks killed in S.Africa, Coptic Orthodox Church says
(Reuters)
Religious objections to vaccines in Africa complicates cholera fight
(Cyril Zenda, Religion Unplugged)
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
African American religions and the voodoo label
(Danielle N. Boaz, Oxford University Press)
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism
(Kirk Lougheed , Motsamai Molefe and Thaddeus Metz, Cambridge University Press)
Monday, 26 February 2024
Algeria inaugurates Africa’s largest mosque after years of political delays and cost overruns
(Associated Press)
South Africa: Why do some Jews feel forgotten?
(David Ehl and Katharina Peetz both in Johannesburg, Deutsche Welle)
Thursday, 22 February 2024
EVENT, 22 February 2024 (3PM MST): Religious Conflict in West Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
(Anand Gopal, Margaret Hanson, Okechukwu Iheduru, Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University)
Monday, 19 February 2024
Official call for election of the president and certain board members of the African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies
(African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS))
The Islamic State group poses rising threat in Africa despite progress, UN experts say
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
Monday, 12 February 2024
From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
(Osamamen Oba Eduviere and Brady G'Sell, The Conversation)
The rise of African prophets: the unchecked power of the leaders of Pentecostal churches
(Josiah Taru, The Conversation)
Webinar review: Ubuntu: traditional southern African philosophy
(JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints, a blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum Association)
Friday, 9 February 2024
Rwanda: Polish President visits Kibeho shrine, praises work done by Catholic nuns in education
(Arnold Neliba, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Thursday, 8 February 2024
WEBINAR, 8 February 2024 (2PM ET): Ubuntu: Traditional Southern African Philosophy
(Isaiah Zimba Chabala, Remi Alapo, Fainos Mangena, Arline Woodbury, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
WEBINAR, 8 February 2024, 12:00 pm MST (US and Canada): Ubuntu: Traditional Southern African Philosophy
(G20 Interfaith Forum)
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Religious freedom in Africa: The launch of the African Forum for Religious & Spiritual Liberty
(YouTube Video, FOREF Europe)
CAR: Transforming conflict resolution in Central Africa Republic: KAICIID's pioneering initiative with Bangui University
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Monday, 5 February 2024
In South America, African-inspired religions gain more followers
(Lucinda Elliott and Candelaria Grimberg, Reuters)
Friday, 2 February 2024
Erga Omnes Partes standing and procedural issues in South Africa v. Israel
(Jan-Phillip Graf, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Brazil: Curitiba may declare African Religions cultural heritage (Portuguese)
(Redação, Tribuna PR)
Monday, 22 January 2024
The fight for justice in African churches (video)
(Mimi Mefo Takambou, Deutsche Welle)
Friday, 19 January 2024
DRC: Bishops warn country in danger, decry elections as fraudulent and full of violence
(Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Kenya: government withdraws all teachers from a Catholic sponsored school after protest
(Arnold Neliba, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Africa’s six Anglican women bishops meet and issue call to combat Africa’s ‘triple threat’
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Friday, 12 January 2024
Egypt’s Al Azhar supports South Africa’s legal case against Israel before ICJ
(Egypt State Information Service)
Africa’s Catholic hierarchy refuses same-sex blessings, says such unions are contrary to God’s will
(Nicole Winfield, BBC News)
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Morocco to lead UN Human Rights Council despite South Africa’s disapproval
(Al Jazeera)
Wednesday, 3 January 2024
South Africa: Despite gang killings of church members, South African pastors continue to preach
(Vicky Abraham, Religion Unplugged)
Tuesday, 2 January 2024
Nigeria: US lawmaker pushes for Nigeria's inclusion on religious persecution list
(Adekunle Agbetiloye, Business Insider Africa)
Saturday, 30 December 2023
South Africa bishops push back against Chief Rabbi who slammed Pope over Hamas
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 29 December 2023
South Africa: Two years after Desmond Tutu, South Africa still searches for moral guides
(Joséphine Kloeckner, La Croix International)
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