Category : RELIGION

  For devout Christians, today is Good Friday, which marks the day Jesus Christ was crucified, more than 2,000 years ago. Good Friday comes two...

Fr Gaetano Batanyenda (L) and retired Bishop Zac Niringiye during the launch of a book on electoral reforms in Kabale Town recently. PHOTO BY ROBERT...

Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, met on March 3 with families of the 21 Christians who were beheaded by the...

Hundreds of female religious guides have been at the forefront of Algeria’s battle against Islamic radicalisation since the civil war that devastated the North African...

  The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released another video today, this time showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS militants...

Benedict Daswa, a Limpopo school principal who was stoned, beaten and burnt to death for his Catholic beliefs, is set to become the first African...

By Terry Modica Good News Ministries Wow, this is a MUST-SEE video and it needs to be shared with our Catholics and our Protestant friends...

The Bishop of Bolton, the Rt Revd Christopher Edmondson, has called on the Government to send “urgent help” to Nigeria to help it tackle Boko...

  Pope Francis revealed on Monday that he hopes to visit  South American countries Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay this year, as well as the Central...

A picture taken on January 17, 2015 shows a church, which was damaged after it was set on fire by protesters during a demonstration against...

Pope Francis braved heavy rain on Saturday to celebrate an emotional mass with a sea of weeping survivors of a super typhoon in the Philippines...

By AFP More by this Author Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious centre of learning, on Tuesday warned that new cartoons published by French satirical weekly...

WRITTEN BY  Lily Kuo@lilkuo Chinese authorities have banned women in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang—an autonomous western region where Muslims account for almost half of the...

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has made a passionate call for the development of the Ghana-We-Want Agenda the next 50 years. According to the...

TB Joshua. File photo Nigerian preacher TB Joshua is flying the families of the victims of his church’s collapse to Lagos to spend Christmas and...

Pope Francis on Thursday roundly condemned jihadist violence and the “brutal persecution” of religious minorities in a Christmas message to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics...

A Bolivian UN peacekeeper dressed like Santa Claus distributes biscuits during an animation performed by Bolivian UN peacekeepers. UN Photo/Marco Dormino With Christmas less than...

Pope Francis is encouraging people to be joyful, saying, “We’ve never heard of a sad saint.” About 50 000 people flocked to St Peter’s Square...