State sponsored violence against members of the Anglican Church reached new levels over the weekend as police in different parts of Harare gatecrashed church services and beat up parishioners loyal to new bishop Sebastian Bakare.

The Presidential Religious Working Group and President Thabo Mbeki have noted with concern the current violence in Zimbabwe.

PURGATORY is defined by The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) as "purification after death, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven".

Besides boosting the opposition side in the House by one seat, the recent victory of acting Democratic Party (DP) Secretary General Dr. Phillip Michael Lulume Bayiga in the Buikwe South by-election has raised a lot of excitement among certain big people in the Catholic Church, who have been mourning the loss of their party to the Anglican Church. The current party president, John Ssebaana Kizito, ...

THE Police are looking for Pastor William Muwanguzi of the Holy Fire Ministries in Namulanda, a church on Entebbe Road

On Ash Wednesday, Christians begin the annual celebration of the paschal mystery which reaches its peak on the feast of Pentecost.

The adage "when the going gets tough, the tough keep going" could probably not ring a bell to a deacon of the Ilboru Evangelical Lutheran Church who on May 2 reportedly committed suicide leaving a message saying, "enough is enough".

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has met the committee organising the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC).

A CHOIR member once quit the team and stopped going to church. When her pastor stumbled upon her and asked her why she quit, she said: "To be safe from gossip, I now follow the church's programme on Lighthouse Television."

A gathering of political leaders from all over the country for the burial of the mother of Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel in Omu- Ijebu yesterday provided an opportunity for the officiating clergy, Most Revd. Ayo Ladigbolu, Bishop of the Methodist Church of Nigeria to warn leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which controls the federal government and 27 state governments.

Like many Rwandans - upwards of sixty per cent before the 1994 genocide - I was brought up Catholic. As a child I looked forward to going to mass. Going to Church was like an outing for the entire family.

The Catholic Church yesterday called for the speeding up of efforts to solve the political crisis in Zanzibar as a means to stem the increasing secession talk by some Pemba elders.

A section of senior church leaders from central Kenya wants the government to sit down for talks with Mungiki, a banned ultra-traditionalist tribal sect dreaded for bizarre murders, extortion and a campaign to impose circumcision and a strict dress code on women.

A group of Christian religious leaders, including John Cardinal Njue, on Thursday told the government to hold talks with the outlawed Mungiki sect.

Should the Church tell people how to vote? Or leave it to the individual conscience? Even the wrongly informed conscience, misled by a sustained campaign of false propaganda and lies as in Zimbabwe? Put plainly: Is the dictator and his party still a genuine option for a Christian?

Formal and informal polygamy remains widespread in Kenya, according to a recent survey, but Catholic lay leaders said sacramental marriage was still intact in the mostly Christian nation.

The 35th Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will be held here between June 18-20, attended by foreign ministers and businesspeople from Muslim countries.

Some 3,000 people attended the closure of the National Eucharistic Congress with Cardinal Ivan Dias, Special Envoy of the Holy Father, who later proceeded to Djibouti.

Two Catholic sisters were among 15 people who died when a bus and a truck collided on Friday morning.

The Church of Uganda House of Bishops has appointed the Rev. Can. Samuel Kaziimba bishop of Mityana Diocese, while the Rev. canon Patrick Gidudu is for Mbale.

The Office of the Prosecutor General is to carry out DNA test to ascertain whether a city Pastor, Luis Empo Mbayi, fathered the baby of a 16-year old girl.

The Council of Churches in Namibia will enter into partnership with the Government. The church body made this resolution at its annual general meeting recently.

CHURCH leaders at Rehoboth hold the Town Council accountable for the mushrooming of illegal shebeens at the town's Block E residential area.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration {FCTA}, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar has urged the former Minister of the FCTA, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to exhibit the tenets of a good Moslem, rather than lie and deceive Nigerians having sworn to an oath with the holy Quran.

Multiple award winning Christian worship artiste Chris Tomlin will be in Kampala at the end of May, according to the artiste's website christomlin.com. Tomlin will be part of the Passion Kampala concert that will be held at Makerere University on May 30 and 31.