Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 28 August 2020
Interfaith action plays key role in addressing Africa’s challenges
(Fr. Benedict Mayaki, SJ, Vatican News)
'Too loud': S Africa court bans call to prayer at Durban mosque
(Mia Swart, Al Jazeera)
South Africa Catholics stage Day of Prayer over women’s plight in COVID era
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
WCC contributes to G20 Interfaith Forum on Africa hosted by KAICIID
(Devdiscourse)
Coronavirus – Africa: World Council of Churches (WCC) moderator contributes to G20 Interfaith Forum on Africa
(Socialnews.xyz)
Central Africans should not be denied right to vote based on their faith
(Anurima Bhargava and Tony Perkins, The Globe Post)
Monday, 24 August 2020
South Africa: Massive fire engulfs historic Durban mosque
(Al Jazeera)
Friday, 7 August 2020
The future of world Christianity is African
(Philip Jenkins, The Gospel Coalition)
Friday, 31 July 2020
Livestock prices stress Muslims in Africa ahead of Eid
(Babacar Dione and Krista Larson, Associated Press)
Reflection on race by Bishop João Noé Rodrigues of South Africa
(Paul Tatu, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Friday, 24 July 2020
South African priest highlights religious freedom in Cuba
(Prensa Latina)
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Rapid COVID-19 spike strains South Africa's health system as churches rush to aid those hit
(Anli Serfontein, Ecumenical News)
‘The pandemic is gaining momentum’: Africa prepares for surge in infections
(David Pilling, Financial Times)
South African bishops denounce racism in society and the Church
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Saturday, 18 July 2020
Most LGBT people in Ghana oppose legalization of same sex marriage
(Elvis Adjetey, About Africa Feeds)
Monday, 13 July 2020
The relationship between blasphemy laws and religious extremism in the Middle East and North Africa
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
5 dead in hostage situation at troubled South Africa church
(Cara Anna, Associated Press)
Gunmen kill at least 5 at South African megachurch, create ‘hostage situation’
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
US threatens sanctions in bid to restore oil sharing in Libya
(Al-Monitor: North Africa Pulse)
Monday, 6 July 2020
Covid-19 in Africa: How Youth are Stepping Up
(Alcinda Honwana and Nyeleti Honwana, From Poverty to Power)
Thursday, 2 July 2020
South Africa: New Bill prohibits marriage officers from turning down same-sex couples
(Jason Felix, News24)
Friday, 26 June 2020
Religious persecution focus shifts to Africa
(Michael Swain, The Catholic Register)
Thursday, 25 June 2020
How is African-American press handling news about protests, COVID-19 and churches?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
African bishop stirs controversy by suspending priest-theologian for syncretism
(Jean François Channon Denwo, La Croix International)
Black Lives Matter: African Americans, migrants, and refugees (Catholic perspective)
(Donald M. Kerwin, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
South Africa bishops warn against ‘second pandemic’ of gender-based violence
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #97: Adapting Practice: African Traditional Religions and COVID-19
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Thursday, 18 June 2020
WEBINAR RECORDING, 18 June 2020: COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Webinar Series || EPISODE 11: Africa and the Middle East Perspectives
(Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Fayyad Alqudah, Khalid Hajji, Ahmed Salisu Garba, Luka David Mosoma)
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Vatican defrocks priest named 'pope' of African sect
(Juste Hlannon, La Croix International)
South Africa’s failure to legislate on religious marriages leaves women vulnerable
(Waheeda Amien, The Conversation)
Monday, 15 June 2020
Nigerian bishop says Africa needs to stop blaming the West for its problems
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
“Mama, Mama… I can’t breathe!” Statement by the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
(Prof. Musa W. Dube, Dept. of Theology, University of Bostwana, General Coordinator, Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians)
The killing of George Floyd sparks controversy over African-Iraqi
(Saad Salloum, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Faith leaders hold local Black Lives Matter vigil in South Africa to protest lockdown deaths
(Anli Serfontein, Ecumenical News)
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #77: COVID-19 in Africa: Puzzles, Positive News, Religious Roles
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
After recovering from COVID-19, African cardinal calls for debt relief for continent
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 1 June 2020
Africans in Germany lose their church communities
(Daniel Pelz, Deutsche Welle)
Saturday, 30 May 2020
Covid-19 and Elections in sub-Saharan Africa: what risks for democracy and human rights?
(Statement, FIDH: International Federation for Human Rights)
West Africa facing food crisis as coronavirus spread: Pandemic adds to jihadi and climate change threats to present ‘immense challenge’ for region
(Emmanuel Akinwotu, The Guardian)
Human rights threatened under COVID-19 pandemic
(VOA - Straight Talk Africa)
Friday, 29 May 2020
Maghreb: Conservatives control the court systems, religion dominates over civil liberties
(The North Africa Journal)
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa is leading the call for a National Day of Prayer, which will take place on Sunday.
(The Citizen)
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
New York Times on young Republicans and African-American voters? Look for familiar ghosts
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Monday, 18 May 2020
As mosques reopen in West Africa, COVID-19 fears grow
(Krista Larson, Associated Press)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Locusts threaten East African food crisis, members of Congress call for aid
(Catholic News Agency)
Friday, 8 May 2020
COVID-19: Urgent need for African governments to upgrade health systems – OpEd
(Kester Kenn Klomegah, Eurasia Review)
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
COVID-19 restrictions & (re)definition of gender roles in Nigeria
(Azizat Omotoyosi Amoloye-Adebayo, Institute for African Women in Law)
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
South African court upholds covid-19 ban over objections of mosque and its imams
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Friday, 1 May 2020
Blogposts: Women, Justice, & Law: COVID-19
(Institute for African Women in Law)
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
"We don't want people starving to death before they get the coronavirus"
(lucie Starr: Exclusive interview with the Cardinal Archbishop of Bangui in Central African Republic, La Croix International)
Monday, 27 April 2020
Africa adapts to new taste of Ramadan under Covid-19 lockdown
(Christina Okello, RFI)
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Malema defends cops asking Muslims defying lockdown in South Africa: ‘Muhammad is bigger than the president?’
(Charles Cilliers, The Citizen)
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Ramadan 2020: Muslims straighten rows for locked down fasting
(Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban, Africa News)
Congo bishop – and president’s uncle – first African prelate to die of COVID-19
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
African church leaders: Insurgents could increase attacks during pandemic
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
COVID-19, Africans’ hardships in China, and the future of Africa-China relations
(Yun Sun, Brookings)
Monday, 20 April 2020
COVID-19 makes life harder for hundreds of thousands of Africa’s persecuted Christians
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Friday, 17 April 2020
COIVD-19's worst victims will be the persecuted Christians of Africa
(Jim Shannon MP, All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
Saturday, 11 April 2020
Church in South Africa supports government’s COVID-19 efforts, archbishop says
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 3 April 2020
South African cops storm Cape Town church to expel migrants
(Associated Press)
Saturday, 28 March 2020
Africa is woefully ill-equipped to cope with covid-19
(The Economist)
No alcohol, no dog walks: Lockdown life in South Africa
(Farouk Chothia, BBC News Asia)
Tuesday, 24 March 2020
How Catholics in Africa are dealing with COVID-19
(Lucie Starr, La Croix International)
Saturday, 21 March 2020
South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa - Interfaith Meeting in Response to Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak
(Press Release: Government of South Africa (Pretoria), All Africa)
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
What coronavirus is changing for Muslims
(Marième Soumaré, Jules Crétois, The Africa Report)
Monday, 16 March 2020
Why has coronavirus largely spared Africa?
(Mathew Otieno, Mercator Net)
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Africa’s policies hold key to LGBT rights on the continent: here’s how
(Boniface Ushie, Chimaroake Izugbara, and Frederick Wekesah, The Conversation)
Monday, 2 March 2020
Service learned at home, hope discovered in Africa (Responding to: Finding hope in humanitarian crisis)
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
African bishops call for ‘binding’ international treaty on transnational corporations
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Letter from Africa: Ethiopia's lost Armenian community
(Ismail Einashe, BBC News)
Friday, 28 February 2020
Archdeacon murdered as Christians killed and kidnapped in multiple attacks in Africa and Asia
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Famine looms as Exodus like plague of locusts wreaks havoc across East Africa
(Will Maule, Christian Headlines)
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Why is Egypt seeking African military force?
(George Mikhail, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Friday, 14 February 2020
Locust plague in East Africa prompts plea for help
(Paul Wilkinson, Church Times)
Thursday, 6 February 2020
West African Christians face Islamic terror as US weighs troop withdrawals
(Lela Gilbert, Religion Unplugged Opinion)
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
Morocco co-sponsors meeting on prevention of hate speech and incitement to discrimination
(The North Africa Post)
Tuesday, 4 February 2020
Anti-Semitic incidents fall to 15-year low in South Africa
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Thursday, 16 January 2020
Bishops urge Central African Republic leaders to face challenges in 2020
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Africa’s young Christian communities are now in Islamic-extremist crosshairs
(National Catholic Register)
Saturday, 4 January 2020
Catholic Relief Services prepares for busy 2020 in Africa
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
COURSE OFFERING: Religious Freedom - African American Perspectives
(The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of Virginia Union University and the Religious Freedom Center of the Freedom Forum Institute have partnered with the five other Historically Black Theological Institutions (HBTIs), Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Friday, 13 December 2019
Nigeria: Use religion to crush corruption, cleric tells govt
(Shina Abubakar, All Africa)
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
As Christianity grows in Africa, anti-Christian persecution rises
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mufti Gainutdin calls on Muslim leaders to protect persecuted Christians of Africa, Middle East
(Interfax-Religion)
Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Event, 10 December 2019: Silencing Religious Freedom in Africa: The Impact of Speech Restrictions
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
New USCIRF report on apostasy, blasphemy and hate speech laws in Africa
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Kenyan nun uses law degree to navigate Church through African society
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 9 December 2019
USCIRF raises alarm about speech laws that restrict religious freedom in more than half of African countries
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Friday, 6 December 2019
Methodist Church Southern Africa enters new era as women take up top positions
(Dion Forster, The Conversation)
African prelate says development, not denunciation, way to fight witchcraft
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Why is homosexuality still taboo in many African countries?
(Kate Hairsine, Deutsche Welle)
Friday, 29 November 2019
South Africa: Protecting the ANC has become a religion
(Mamphela Ramphele., New 24 and City Press)
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
In West Africa, Church leaders meet to discuss humanitarian crisis
(Catholic News Agency)
Monday, 18 November 2019
Church hopes to provide alternatives to migration in West Africa
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 15 November 2019
Opinion: Church’s role is to build unity, equality
(Sipho Mahokoto, Mail & Guardian Africa)
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Esther Mombo says African Christianity is 'young and vibrant,' but needs to listen to its women
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
America’s right is lobbying against South Africa’s sex education syllabus
(Haley McEwen, The Conversation)
Monday, 4 November 2019
Equality, reconciliation and instability: the challenges before the South African Constitutional Court
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Franciscan brother in Kenya named U.N. Person of the Year in Africa
(Francis Njuguna, Catholic News Service)
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