Rwanda Government Shuts More Than 5,000 Churches, Claiming Code Violations
‘The government gave us five years to comply and kept giving us reminders. That ended last year in September,’ said Anglican Archbishop Laurent Mbanda.
Kenyan Youth Protesters Hold Christian Leaders to Account as They Force Economic Changes
'It is a wakeup call for the churches,' said an Anglican priest. 'The churches should remain independent, and I think the youth are angry that this is not the case.'
It Was Meant To Be a Christian Utopia. Now This Nigerian Community Is Helpless Against Rising Seas
Buildings have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean, an increasingly common image along the vulnerable West African coast.
Ivory Coast Splits With UMC but Kenya and Other African Conferences Slow To Follow
‘You don’t throw away the relationship of your sibling because you do not agree on an issue,’ said a former UMC bishop from Nairobi.
Africa’s Six Anglican Women Bishops Meet and Issue Call to Combat Africa’s ‘Triple Threat’
The weeklong gathering outside Kenya's capital focused on gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS, saying the Anglican churches in Africa have been silent on these issues affecting many African women.
Leading African Ecumenical Group Elects First Female President
The Rev. Lydia Chituku Neshangwe, a Presbyterian minister, became the first woman to lead the ecumenical All Africa Conference of Churches.
Faith-Based Health Organizations Defend At-Risk AIDS Initiative From Republicans
Many faith-based organizations opposed to abortion are fighting for PEPFAR, an AIDS program that some Republicans now claim provides abortion services.
African Churches Urge US Congress to Reauthorize PEPFAR
The leaders are writing in response to a letter sent to Congress in June by religious groups and legislators asserting that the funds for the program were financing family planning and reproductive health programs, including abortion.
At African Climate Summit, Faith Leaders Join Demands for Climate Justice
‘Matters of climate change cannot be politicized, reduced to economies,’ said a Lutheran priest, but instead should be ‘treated as a matter of life and death.’
UMC Bishops in Africa Break With Africa Initiative, Wesleyan Covenant Association
A group of United Methodist bishops in Africa announced Thursday that it will no longer work with the Africa Initiative or the Wesleyan Covenant Association, accusing the groups of spreading misinformation. The bishops claim the Africa Initiative, which was formed in 2008 to give African