Law and Religion Headlines
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))
Monday, 2 October 2023
The future of homeland security: Addressing the rise of terrorism in Africa
(Donna Charles, The United States Institute of Peace)
Monday, 11 September 2023
G20 now includes Africa’s fast-growing, highly religious countries
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
At African climate summit, faith leaders join demands for climate justice
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Friday, 25 August 2023
Catholic bishops appeal for debt relief to help Africa
(Fredrick Nzwili, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Wednesday, 23 August 2023
African faith leaders statement on how Africa can emerge from today's multiple crises
(Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA))
Monday, 24 July 2023
Two visions for Africa (deeply rooted in Christianity; imported secularism)
(Eric Patterson, World)
Monday, 10 July 2023
Fostering food systems in light of the principle of oneness: Some considerations for the AU – EU partnership
(Bahá’í World News Service)
After the fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa
(Cara Anna, Associated Press)
Monday, 3 July 2023
African church leaders warn of new genocide risks in Sudan
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The competition for believers in Africa is transforming Christianity and Islam
(Francis X. Rocca, Nicholas Bariyo, and Gbenga Akingbule, The Wall Street Journal)
Monday, 26 June 2023
The provocation by witchcraft defence in anglophone Africa: Origins and historical development
(Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)
Faith-based organizations tell Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR
(Lydia Andrews, The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN))
Monday, 12 June 2023
Fostering dialogue and action: The first international parliamentarians conference on freedom of religion or belief in Africa
(International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB))
Friday, 19 May 2023
Religion and educational mobility in Africa
(Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann, Stelios Michalopoulos & Elias Papaioannou, Nature)
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
VIRTUAL EVENT, 25 May 2023 (11:00 CET): Exploring the nexus between racism, xenophobia and the AfCTA, and AU free movement protocol
(World Council of Churches)
Friday, 21 April 2023
Kenya: Regional ecclesial bodies ramp-up calls for dialogue after failed 24-hour ceasefire in Sudan
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Friday, 14 April 2023
African churches launch human rights award
(World Council of Churches)
Wednesday, 12 April 2023
Viewpoint: East Africa's battle over culture and homosexuality
(BBC News)
Monday, 10 April 2023
In Africa, here’s how to respond to Russia’s brutal Wagner Group
(Joseph Sany, The United States Institute of Peace)
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
USCIRF releases new report on African traditional and indigenous religions
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
Making the case for a G21
(Christina Tobias-Nahi, Islamic Relief USA)
Friday, 9 December 2022
Religion and peace
(Daniel Philpott, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Thursday, 10 November 2022
African bishops: No climate justice without land justice
(Fredrick Nzwili, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Friday, 13 May 2022
BIC: Promoting principle of oneness in African-European partnership
(Bahá’í World News Service)
Friday, 18 February 2022
Rural Africans ignored in deals between EU, African Union, letter says
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Saturday, 20 June 2020
In Togo, a Catholic nun fights COVID-19 for the sake of her AIDS patients
(Clement Girardot, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Locusts threaten East African food crisis, members of Congress call for aid
(Catholic News Agency)
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)
Saturday, 19 January 2019
One in every six Christians in Africa experience high persecution
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Monday, 20 March 2017
Pakistani Catholic priest and imam honoured for interreligious harmony
(Vatican Radio)
Friday, 8 July 2016
African Union to withdraw troops from Somalia by 2020
(Elias Meseret, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
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