Law and Religion Headlines
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)
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
U.S. pitted against Britain, France, South Africa, others at U.N. over abortion
(Michelle Nichols, Reuters)
Sunday, 20 October 2019
African students excluded from China’s churches
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Friday, 18 October 2019
China bans African students from worshiping in churches to prevent 'foreign infiltration'
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post)
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Highlighting Nigeria's abusive 'Islamic schools' challenge
(Daniel Mumbere, Africa News)
Invoking culture or religion to harm others can never be justified
(Pierre De Vos, Daily Maverick (South Africa))
Saturday, 12 October 2019
Destroying a fragile peace, terrorists wreak havoc in West Africa
(Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post)
Monday, 30 September 2019
Do Africans need to repent for slave trade? This Wall Street Journal piece suggests they should
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Harry and Meghan visit South Africa’s oldest mosque on tour
(Associated Press)
Thursday, 19 September 2019
South African bishop says Church must tackle xenophobia
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Saturday, 14 September 2019
African religious leaders to South Sudan: ‘End the violence’
(Fredrick Nzwili, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope Francis talks candidly about Catholic Church on trip to 3 African countries
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Friday, 13 September 2019
South African bishops: Government must protect women, girls from murder
(Bronwen Dachs, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 9 September 2019
What research reveals about drivers of anti-immigrant hate crime in South Africa
(Steven Gordon, The Conversation)
Saturday, 7 September 2019
Thinking about Africa, Pope Francis: While seeing through eyes of BBC and The New York Times
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Francis challenges African youth of all religions to ‘write a new page of history’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tuesday, 3 September 2019
Climate, post-conflict peace on pope’s Africa agenda
(Nicole Winfield and Andrew Meldrum, Associated Press)
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
South Africa’s bishops continue to fight country’s AIDS crisis
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 14 August 2019
African bishop: Church must work to end violence against albinos
(Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service)
Monday, 22 July 2019
Africa needs courageous Catholics to tackle its challenges, speakers say
(Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service)
Friday, 19 July 2019
Africa: International Religious Freedom Award Winners
(All Africa)
Tuesday, 16 July 2019
African churches work to counter pressures on Congo River basin
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Botswana court ruling is a ray of hope for LGBT people across Africa
(Frans Viljoen, The Conversation)
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
East African bishops condemn Eritrea seizure of church health centers
(Francis Njuguna, Catholic News Service)
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Christians flee Burkina Faso after at least 19 Christians are killed in the African nation
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Violence against Christians on the rise in Africa
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
A win for gay rights in Botswana is a ‘step against the current’ in Africa
(Alan Yuhas, The New York Times)
Friday, 7 June 2019
EVENT, 7 June 2019: Disrupt the narrative: Centering African American perspectives on religious freedom
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Friday, 24 May 2019
Central African Republic: is justice being sacrificed for the illusion of peace?
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Thursday, 23 May 2019
West African bishops pledge church help to counter terror attacks
(Catholic News Service)
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
In central Africa, Islamist militias complicate church efforts to battle Ebola
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Morocco, commander of the (African) faithful?
(Sarah Alaoui, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
South Africa : interfaith leaders commit to societal renewal
(African Daily Voice)
Monday, 8 April 2019
French Catholic university encourages African bishops in self-reflection
(Catholic News Agency)
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Gregory appointment a milestone in the history of African-American Catholics
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Thursday, 28 March 2019
A startup factory helps African nuns spread the word on social enterprise
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
After cyclone disaster, church organizations mobilize to help devastated Africans
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Botswana joins list of African countries reviewing gay rights
(Andrew Novak, The Conversation)
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
South African court invalidates Dutch Reformed Church's LGBT policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Church in South Africa calls for better treatment of migrant workers
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
West African Court faults government of Nigeria for failing to stop killings in Benue state
(Christian Headlines)
Monday, 4 March 2019
Africa's self-styled prophets and their 'miracles'
(Silja Fröhlich, Deutsche Welle)
Friday, 1 March 2019
Holy See supports efforts to end conflicts in Africa
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Thursday, 28 February 2019
EVENTS: February is African American History Month
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
South Africa: Prophet slapped with lawsuit for resurrection hoax
(Khaya Koko, The Star)
In South Africa, funeral homes sue church over fake resurrection
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Religiosity, risky behaviour and young people: a South African case study
(Joel Msafiri Franci and Neo Morojele, The Conversation)
Friday, 22 February 2019
EVENT, 22 February 2019: Gallery Talk: Satchel Paige and the Negro Leagues
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC)
Thursday, 21 February 2019
EVENTS, 21 February 2019: African American Passages: Black Lives in 19th Century America
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC)
Victims from Africa, Asia at Vatican to call for 'zero tolerance' of abuse cover-up
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
China hearing gospel via Africa; church growing amid brutal persecution
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
EVENT, 13 February 2019: Black Pearl Sings
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - James Madison Building, Washington DC)
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
EVENT, 12 February 2019: What was, What what is, and what will be: a cross-genre look at Afrofuturism
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - James Madison Building, Washington DC)
Sunday, 10 February 2019
South Africa: Global Citizens’ Human Rights Coalition says religious freedom 'increasingly under threat'
(Afikile Lugunya, RNEWS)
Friday, 8 February 2019
Africa also grappling with clerical sex abuse
(La Croix International)
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
EVENT, 5 Feburary 2019: Conversation on the Omar Ibn Said Collection
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC)
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