Anti-immigrant violence in South Africa killed 62 people and wounded 670 this month, police said Saturday, raising an earlier toll of 56 dead after several victims died in hospital. "In total...

As the Museum's Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries show, Christianity arrived in Africa as part of the spread of what was a universal church in the late Roman and early Byzantine centuries. Brandi...

Baptism ceremony of the Eglise du Christianisme Céleste in Cotonou, Benin. Africa is the 2nd continent in which Christianity found a home. In scripture, the History of Christianity in Afri...

t's an indelible image: the white missionary venturing into deepset Africa. But the real story is what happened when African converts relayed the gospel message in their own words.July 1, 2003Taki...

by Jacqueline TrussellFounder and President of BlackandChristian.com In October 1992, a group of African American religious leaders gathered at Vanderbilt University's School of Divinity to wrestl...

Ghanaian Christian Women, Pt. Iby Janet Moore, M.Div.McCormick Theological SeminaryChicago, ILThe Ghanaian women walk through the streets with their wares on top of their head. These images of t...

Women in Zaire in the 1990s have not attained a position of full equality with men. Although the Mobutu regime has paid lip service to the important role of women in society and although women enj...

Until the inauguration of multipartyism in 1990, the most persistent and most effective opposition to the Mobutu regime came from the Roman Catholic Church. Mobutu's ambitions for state expansion ...

Protestant missionaries have been active since 1878 when the first Protestant mission was founded among the Kongo. Early relations with the state were not warm. During the existence of the Congo F...

Algeria hit back on Saturday at foreign accusations minority Christians are harassed, saying Protestant evangelicals were secretly trying to divide Algerians to colonise the mainly Muslim north Af...

One Egyptian Muslim was killed and four Christians were wounded and on Saturday in a clash over disputed land near a Christian monastery in central Egypt, security sources said.Muslim Khalil Moham...

Sudan's government has proposed a joint north-south administration for the oil-rich flashpoint Abyei area where clashes displaced tens of thousands of people this month, state media said on Friday...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev Thabo Makgoba, have appealed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to help protect the people of Zimbab...

Homosexuality is illegal in ZanzibarMuslim clerics in Zanzibar have blocked a bid by two gay lovers to exchange marriage vows. The discreet ceremony was stopped after reports reached members of t...

President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya has denounced homosexuality, describing it as a scourge that goes against Christian teachings and African traditions. Speaking in Nairobi, Mr Moi said Kenyans sh...

Police raided Zimbabwe Christian Alliance offices on Monday and arrested five staff members for interrogation, the group reported.Enlarge this Image (Photo: AP/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) Morgan Tsvangi...

Dan Wooding (July 2, 2008) "Remember a lot of people in the West put pressure on the then apartheid government-and that apartheid government had to bend to the will of the international community...

The Bishop of Harare, the Rt Rev Sebastian Bakare, said he was hopeful after hearing that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai are to enter leadership discussio...

In a pastoral letter addressed to the heads of churches in Zimbabwe, the President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Bishop Mark S Hanson, has expressed the Lutheran communion's solidarity a...