Kenya’s Roman Catholic Church has condemned a Catholic group for a billboard and newspaper advertising campaign promoting condom use. The US-based Catholics for Choice was planting “negative attitudes” that…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Jorge Bergoglio begins his papacy as Francis I facing the challenge of a Catholic Church caught up in a burdensome contradiction with modern society, because of…
The new leader of the Roman Catholic church, Pope Francis, greeted crowds at the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square after being elected late Wednesday. The pope called for “brotherhood” in the…
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has elected a new head six months after the death of the previous patriarch. Abune Mathias, 71, will be enthroned in the capital, Addis Ababa, on…
Emerging playwright/director Germono Toussaint brilliantly presented his new play, The Anointed, to a captivated audience at Columbia University’s Union Theological Seminary on Saturday, February 16, 2013. The play whose theme…
Abuja, Nigeria – A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory. Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there…
Delta State — The Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion has threatened to break away from the Church of England over the decision of the later to drop opposition to gay…
JAKARTA – Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has found a deterrent to Islamic fundamentalists: they dress conservatively, sport short beards and Islamic caps and emulate the ways of…
JERUSALEM – For centuries, the Jews of Ethiopia, the Beta Israel, lived in almost complete isolation from other Jewish communities around the globe. Professor Joseph Halévy recounted in “Travels in…
CAIRO — Egypt’s Coptic Christians have a new leader. Bishop Tawadros has been chosen to succeed the late Pope Shenouda and to shepherd one of the world’s oldest Christian communities…
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