Africa: U.S. Sought Personal Details of Great Lakes, Sahel Leaders

A secret diplomatic cable sent to American diplomatic missions in the name of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton last April sought personal details – including fingerprints,… Read more »

South Africa: Tutu Pulls Out of Most Public Engagements

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu announced on Thursday that he will retire from public life on his 79th birthday in October. Read more »

South Africa: Religious Uproar Over Jewish Judge Who Criticized Israel

South Africa's Jewish community, the largest in Africa, is in an uproar over pressure brought to bear on one of its most eminent members by Zionists upset over his involvement in… Read more »

South Africa: Split Opens in Ruling Party Over Dalai Lama

South Africa's health minister, Barbara Hogan, has condemned her own government for denying the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a visa to enter the country for a peace… Read more »

Nigeria: Sharia Court Bans Satirical Play

Early in October, Shehu Sani started preparations for the opening of his third play, The Phantom Crescent. He wanted to perform it outside, in a park in Kaduna, where people could… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Stop Rights Violations Now, Says Tutu

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday made a new attack on human rights violations in Zimbabwe. He said in a statement he was "devastated" by the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Fierce Mugabe Critic Resigns Over Scandal

Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, the fierce critic of the Mugabe government who faces court action over an allegation that he had an affair with a married woman, has resigned his… Read more »

South Africa: Minister's Remorse Opens Way to Prosecutions for Apartheid Crimes

In an extraordinary sequel to South Africa's truth and reconciliation process, an apartheid-era cabinet minister and a former national police chief have been sentenced to… Read more »

West Africa: Koundandi: A Film About Love and Sacrifice

The image of African women in the media has gone through several positive transformations over the years. African filmmakers are increasingly showing the diversity of African women… Read more »

Africa: Tutu Reflects - We Live in a Moral Universe; Zimbabwe Tests Our Resolve, Our Judgment

Nobel Peace Prizewinner, cleric and champion of justice for the world's poor: retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu still moves at a blistering pace, leaving aides and admirers… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Catholic Bishops Warn of Mass Uprising

The bishops of Zimbabwe's powerful Catholic Church have issued an unusually strongly-worded letter to their congregations drawing an analogy between the current struggle and the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Africans Should 'Hang Heads in Shame' - Tutu

Africans should "hang our heads in shame" at this week's suppression of opposition protest in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said today. Read more »

Kenya: HIV Center Running Out of Space

The Coptic Mission in Africa has operated the Coptic Hope Center, a comprehensive HIV health facility, in Nairobi since 2004. The facility, which has been very successful in… Read more »

Sudan: Review of 'All About Darfur'

All About Darfur: Is Sudan in a culture of war? Read more »

Africa: Anglican Church Announces Plans to Combat Poverty, Climate Change

International representatives of the Anglican Church meeting in South Africa today launched a global initiative to bring church members around the world together to fight poverty… Read more »

Liberia: "A New Heart for Our Nation" - Liberia Inaugural Sermon

Sermon Delivered on Sunday, January 15, 2006 at the Thanksgiving and Intercessory Service for the Inauguration of the New Government for the Republic of Liberia at First United… Read more »

Liberia: Liberia's Methodist Bishop Appeals to Church Member Weah to Accept Election Results

My Fellow Liberians, Brothers and Sisters of the Faith Community in Liberia, Our Young People, the Precious Jewels and Future Leaders of the Blessed Nation, Liberia: Read more »

Africa: Religious Leaders Seek To 'Keep The Momentum Going' On Millennium Goals - Ndungane

As world leaders convened in New York for the UN World Summit in New York earlier this month, influential religious leaders from around the world met last weekend to discuss the… Read more »

Uganda: Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda

Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda is a wonderful book on the history of one of the least known Jewish communities in the world. I first came across literature on the Jewish community… Read more »

Nigeria: Biafra War Echoes in Claims for Resource Control, Independence

The Biafra War seems to be part of Nigeria's distant past, but the fear of violence and the idea of partition are still present among citizens of Africa's most populous nation.… Read more »

Africa: New Book Examines Yoruba Religion in Nigeria and the Diaspora

In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival, which the Nigerian state organized to "reconcile Africans in diaspora… Read more »

Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator

After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »

Ghana: New Book Examines Charismatic Churches in Ghana

Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. Paul Gifford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 216 pp. $24.95 paper. Read more »

South Africa: Aelred Stubbs, Spiritual Mentor and Editor, Dies

When nine leaders of the black consciousness movement were put on trial in Pretoria in 1975, many of them far from home, and public interest ebbed during the protracted State case,… Read more »

Nigeria: Novel Explores Religion and Silence

Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chapel Hill:Algonquin, 2003. 320 pp. $16.77 cloth, $10.40 paper. 165123875 Read more »