Category : RELIGION

  By Hannah Tooley The leader of the Catholic Church in Kenya, Cardinal John Njue, has called upon Christians to open a frank and intelligent...

SUBMITTED BY SONIA PORTER Better understanding and harnessing the role of faith in development is becoming an area of growing interest and engagement within the...

FILE – President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly. By : James Butty The powerful Roman Catholic...

Rabat- Morocco’s Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid expressed his disagreement with France’s decision to ban Muslim women from wearing the full-face veil, news website le360 reported....

Pope Francis received the bishops of Congo on the occasion of their ad limina visit this morning and exhorted them to freely proclaim the Gospel in a credible...

PHOTO: REUTERS In an act of religious harmony, Muslims in Egypt have donated money towards building a Coptic church in Al Manufiyya, north of Cairo....

Ethiopia — In a downtrodden neighborhood called Cherkos, not far from the headquarters of the African Union, an olive-green tent stands as a tangible symbol...

  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...