Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
South African teenage girl becomes first arrested for trying to join Islamic State
(Aislinn Laing, The Telegraph)
Monday, 6 April 2015
South African teen 'recruited on social media' stopped on flight from joining IS
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Liberia: Heading for trouble? Religious tension threatens Liberia peace
(Selma Lomax, All Africa)
Liberia: Muslim delegates want proposition 24 deleted
(Solomon N Giddings, All Africa)
Monday, 30 March 2015
Why ‘left v. right’ is a category mistake for the Church in Africa
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux)
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
The ‘African moment’ in global Catholicism gathers steam
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Covering all things Catholic)
Friday, 20 March 2015
South African Jewish students oppose use of swastikas in protest
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Attack stokes instability fears in North Africa
(Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post)
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
US evangelicals in Africa put faith into action but some accused of intolerance
(Antony Loewenstein, The Guardian)
Almost all mosques destroyed in C African Republic conflict
(Cara Anna, Al Arabiya News)
Thursday, 12 March 2015
PDP using religion to divide Nigeria - Buhari
(allAfrica)
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Nigeria: PDP preparing ground for religious crisis, Oshiomhole warns
(Francis Onoiribholo, allAfrica)
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Pope Francis thanks churches in North Africa for their courage
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Saturday, 28 February 2015
EVENT, 23-28 February 2015: International Conference, "Towards Religious Freedom in Africa"
(An initiative of the Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos in collaboration with the Nigerian Bar Association (Lagos and Ikeja Branches); The African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (South Africa), and the Internationa)
Friday, 27 February 2015
Morocco’s religious diplomacy in Africa
(Ghita Tadlaoui, FRIDE)
Niger: Boko Haram is not a feminist problem - a Nigerian woman's perspective
(Yoknyam Dabale, allAfrica)
South African student body wants plight of Palestinians taught in schools
(Middle East Monitor)
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
African apostasy: How it disenfranchises, disrupts family ties & endangers lives
(Sincere Kirabo, Patheos Blog: Notes from an Apostate)
Friday, 13 February 2015
Egypt sees al-Azhar as key to Africa
(Ayah Aman, trans. Rani Geha, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Boko Haram could 'destabilize' the African continent, Nigerian archbishop says
(Julia Craven and Ryan Grim, Huff Post Politics)
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Jews, especially those who don’t support Palestinians, must be expelled, demanded Students Representative Council at South African university
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
West Africa: Regional Boko Haram offensive
(Human Rights Watch)
South African university student council's call to expel Jewish students sparks outrage
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Saturday, 7 February 2015
Nine things about the African Court of Justice and Human Rights
(The Hague Trials Kenya)
Friday, 6 February 2015
UN calls for regional military coordination against Boko Haram
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Nigeria elections: Mixing religion and politics
(Will Ross, BBC News Africa)
Monday, 26 January 2015
Anglican leader condemns violence against foreigners in South Africa
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Friday, 23 January 2015
Boko Haram emerges as brutal Islamic State of Africa
(Oren Dorell, USA Today)
Boko Haram emerges as brutal Islamic State of Africa
(Oren Dorell / USA Today, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Nigeria: Country's politics have nothing to do with religion
(allAfrica)
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
As China bans the Burqa, their media blames Western colonialism for the Charlie Hebdo tragedy
(Gerhard Jacobs, The South African)
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
John Mbiti becomes the first African scholar to translate Bible in Kikamba language
(World Council of Churches)
Friday, 9 January 2015
African church leaders worry about the ‘medicalization’ of female genital mutilation
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Africa’s Catholic moment
(George Weigel, First Things)
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
South Africans take to Twitter to protest Zuma Bible translation
(Christian Today)
Monday, 5 January 2015
At memorial for African Hebrew leader, signs of integration and respect
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraph Association)
Monday, 29 December 2014
Islamic insurgency isn’t just a Mideast problem, as Africans know all too well
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Spiritual leader of African Hebrew Israelites dies
(Ian Deitch, Associated Press, Yahoo! News)
Friday, 19 December 2014
Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 200 villagers'
(BBC News Africa)
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Churches seek to strengthen electoral process in Democratic Republic of Congo
(World Council of Churches (Press Release), All Africa)
Friday, 5 December 2014
Cameroon's anti-terrorism law - reversal of human freedoms
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, All Africa)
Nigeria: Tighten security at mosques - JNI
(Maryam Ahmadu-Suka, All Africa)
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Letter from Africa: Finger-pointing over Boko Haram
(BBC)
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Al-Shabab massacres non-Muslims at Kenya quarry
(BBC News Africa)
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Peace prize awarded to Central African Republic top clerics
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Friday, 21 November 2014
Christian forces clash with UN in Central African Republic
(Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Christian Today)
Friday, 14 November 2014
Africa's rights court in Arusha needs to grow
(Daily News (Tanzania))
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Tennessee Baptist Convention elects its first African-American leader
(Stephanie Samuel, The Christian Post)
Monday, 10 November 2014
Central African Republic: Urge end to killings, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)
EVENT, 10 November 2014: Peacebuilding in Central African Republic: The Views of Top Religious Leaders
(Imam Omar Kabine Layama, Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga and Reverend Nicolas Guérékoyame Gbangou, United States Institute of Peace)
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Nigeria: Agbakoba sues govt over religious discrimination
(Bartholomew Madukwe, All Africa)
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Major milestone in protecting religious freedom in Middle East and Africa
(European Christian Political Movement)
Friday, 31 October 2014
Is Burkina Faso sub-Saharan Africa’s version of the Arab Spring?
(Larisa Epatko, PBS NewsHour)
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Priest kidnapped, dozens killed amidst renewed violence in C. African Rep
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Monday, 20 October 2014
What is African American religion?
(Eddie S. Glaude Jr., OUPblog Religion)
Friday, 17 October 2014
As Ebola epidemic tightens grip, west Africa turns to religion for succour
(Monica Mark, The Guardian)
Polish missionary priest kidnapped by Central African Republic militia
(Mark Woods, Christian Today)
Thursday, 16 October 2014
What's driving homophobia in Africa?
(Tierney Sneed and Teresa Welsh, U.S. News & World Report)
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Nigeria's 'megachurches': a hidden pillar of Africa's top economy
(Tim Cocks, Reuters)
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Srebrenica massacre and Islamophobia in Africa: Conscience… Apprehension and massacre…
(Fouad Farhaoui, The Journal of Turkish Weekly)
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Machinegun, heavy weapons fire rock Central African Republic capital
(Reuters)
Monday, 6 October 2014
Woolworths of South Africa threatens to sue BDS over protests
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Friday, 3 October 2014
Nobel laureates′ conference cancelled in South Africa over Dalai Lama visa
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Religion, same-sex marriage and the courts in the Rainbow Nation of South Africa
(Guest post by Mark Hill QC, Law & Religion UK)
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Ecclesia De Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (Judgment)
(Ponnan, Wallis, Pillay JJA and Fourie and Mathopo AJJA, The Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa)
South African appeals court says minister must arbitrate dispute with church
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Ecclesia De Lange v The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(Press Release, The Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa)
Sudan: Women protest worsening oppression, rising food prices
(Katy Migiro & Tim Pearce, All Africa)
Friday, 26 September 2014
Boko Haram Nigeria Abubakar Shekau Africa Boko Haram militant leader is dead, Nigerian military says
(France 24 International News)
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Cape Town shuts South Africa's pro-gay mosque
(BBC News)
Monday, 22 September 2014
Boko Haram leader killed – Cameroon army sources
(StarAfrica)
Friday, 19 September 2014
South African president vows to fight anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Cape Town pro-gay mosque opens in South Africa
(BBC News)
Monday, 15 September 2014
Thousands of Christians march in Bangalore against violence in Iraq, Syria and Africa
(Santosh Digal, AsiaNews.it)
Friday, 12 September 2014
No South Africa visa for Dalai Lama: China’s growing influence in Africa
(James Char, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)
More than 5,000 dead in C. African Republic
(Krista Larson, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
ISIS giving Nigeria's Boko Haram advice on establishing African caliphate
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Dalai Lama again refused S. Africa visa, no trip
(Carley Petesch, Associated Press -The Big Story)
Monday, 1 September 2014
The state of religious freedom in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Responses by Aisha Bablakin, Emmanuel Ogebe, Anthony Gill, and Robert A. Dowd, Cornerstone, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Why is the world silent while Christians are slaughtered in Middle East and Africa? asks Jewish advocacy group leader
(Alex Murashko, The Christian Post)
Monday, 18 August 2014
Islamic militias continue spread beyond the Middle East into African nations
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Friday, 15 August 2014
Central African Republic: A cleric asks: 'Why do you want to kill this boy?'
(Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times)
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
African American pastors do not necessarily have to plant black, multi-ethnic churches only, says Christian writer
(Jessica Martinez, The Christian Post)
Monday, 11 August 2014
Is Ebola a curse from God? Some African Christian leaders think so
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Sunday, 10 August 2014
West Africans fill churches to pray for deliverance from 'devil' Ebola
(Clair MacDougall and Umaru Fofana, Reuters)
Friday, 8 August 2014
Adventist Church recommends staff, members not travel to and from West Africa
(Ansel Oliver, Adventist News Network)
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Liberian churches call for 3-day of prayer to fight Ebola
(Front Page Africa)
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Gold, diamonds feed Central African religious violence
(Daniel Flynn, Reuters)
Monday, 28 July 2014
Female oppression crippling parts of Africa
(Associated Press, Mint Press News)
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Egypt: A dream deferred – OpEd
(Kristen McTighe, Good Governance Africa)
Central African Republic fighters attack church sheltering civilians
(Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Reuters)
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Central African Republic fighters attack church sheltering civilians
(Crispin Dembassa-Kette, Reuters)
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Ramadan adds extra pressure for N. African Christians
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Sudan's Christian convert woman faces new lawsuit
(Reporting by Maaz Alnugomi in Khartoum, Writing by Yasmine Saleh; editing by Ralph Boulton, Reuters Africa)
Friday, 13 June 2014
Sudanese woman appeals against death sentence for apostasy
(K. O. Peppeh, East Africa News)
Somalia's al-Shabab militants impose dress code
(BBC News Africa)
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
African Wikipedia aims to create online legacy of traditions and languages
(David Smith, The Guardian)
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Central African Republic: Let Muslims seek safety, urges HRW
(Eurasia Review)
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Nigerian villagers 'killed in Boko Haram church attack'
(BBC News Africa)
Saturday, 31 May 2014
Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan 'to free' death row woman
(BBC News Africa)
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