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
Memorial for Reinhard Bonnke, ‘the Billy Graham of Africa,’ Draws Thousands
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — Reinhard Bonnke, the German evangelist known as “The Billy Graham of Africa,” was lauded at a Saturday (Jan. 4) memorial service as “a giant and a general in the army of God.”
U.S. “Gag Rule” on Aid Linked to 40% Jump in Abortions in Parts of Africa
LONDON (Reuters) - A decades-old U.S. government policy reinstated by President Donald Trump in 2017 that restricts international aid to NGOs that support abortion is linked to a 40% rise in abortions in some parts of sub-Saharan African, a study showed on Thursday (June 27).
Sowing Division, Islamists Target Christians in Burkina Faso
(RNS) — A rash of attacks on churches in Burkina Faso is exposing the growing challenge of containing Islamist violence across Africa’s Sahel region.
In African Refugee Camps, App Replaces Bibles Left Behind
KAMPALA, Uganda (RNS) — Recently, dozens of South Sudanese refugees gathered inside a tent at Imvepi Refugee Camp to thank God for enabling them to found a new church — one made partly possible by a new app that links preachers to Bible
Africa Is Set to Be the Global Center of Christianity for the Next 50 Years
There are already more Christians in Africa than any other continent—that’s not going to change soon. By 2060 six of the countries with the top ten largest Christian populations will be in Africa.
How Africa Is Converting China
Much has been made of the influx of Chinese money and workers into Africa over the past two decades, as China has become the primary economic partner for the continent. This link is also causing China to import something that it has been trying to