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National and Local Leaders Honored for Bringing Stroke Awareness to African Americans at the 2010 Power Awards Concert – Friday, May 7
What: Power Awards Concert and Red Carpet Event to honor national and local leaders from across the country for raising the bar in promoting...
Catholic sex abuse scandals uncovered in Africa
Recent sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in Europe and the Americas seem to be spreading to Africa. Alleged claims...
39 Christian ‘cult’ members in Uganda prison for uncultured behaviour
39 members of a cult called 'End time Gospel' based in central Uganda, currently in remand prison for holding unlawful assembly and behaving in...
Nigeria: Senator marries 13-year old, rights activists appalled
A Nigerian senator, who introduced and implemented Sharia Law in a Northern Nigeria state, has married a 13 year old girl from Egypt, and...
‘I Remember Gospel’: Author Chronicles His Life Singing Black Gospel as a Caucasian in the 1960s
Imagine being onstage during a black gospel concert in the '60s and '70s with some of the most famous gospel groups of all time....
US-Egypt: Congressional Members Urge State Department to Address Forced Marriage, Forced Conversion of Coptic Women and Girls in Egypt
Eighteen Members of Congress, from both parties, expressed "concern over continuing reports of abductions, forced marriages, and exploitation of Coptic women and girls in...
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Metes Out Repression in the South
The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab is subjecting inhabitants of southern Somalia to killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control, Human Rights Watch said in...
Mithly, Morocco’s first magazine for gays
Launched on April 1, Mithly (gay, in Arabic) is the first openly gay Moroccan magazine. The publication, edited in Arabic, seeks to give a...
Arabization and a history of Black-African marginalization in Mauritania
Overtaken by an overpowering sense of relentless cultural oppression and marginalization, Black-Mauritanians continue to express their resentment after two recent speeches, by the Prime...
Nigeria: Islamic Preaching Bill may breach peace?
Nigeria has sought to tackle religious violence by implementing a bill that prevents extremists from preaching, and demands clerics to obtain a license to...
Mauritania: “Arabization has nothing to do with Islam”
The Mauritanian government, Sunday, spoke out on the burning issue of Arabization, which was raised by the Prime Minister and Minister of Youth and...
Congolese church and government representatives to discuss human rights
Human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be the topic of a workshop bringing together high-level representatives of government, churches and...
Hijab wearing African-American Sumayya Ali against all odds
Sumayya Ali probably surprises everyone but herself. The burgeoning African-American opera singer has performed on the television show American Idol, Zulu-danced with Step Afrika...
Mauritania: Arabization hateful of African culture?
Tensions have risen to a fever pitch on the campus of the University of Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, since the month of March. Arabization...
Nigeria: Police kills youth as Muslims and Christians Clash again
Muslim and Christian youths in Nigeria clashed again on Monday in the religiously volatile city of Jos , in what has been registered as...
Zanzibar: US restores 900 year Kizimkazi mosque
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation has provided support for saving three mosques in Tanzania, including the one near Kizimkazi on the island...
Sharia Court bans online discussion of amputation
On 22 March 2010, Justice Lawal Muhammed of Magajin Gari Sharia Court in Kaduna, North-western Nigeria banned the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, a...
Uganda royal tombs’ arsonist arrested
A man yesterday surprised policemen in Uganda's capital Kampala, when he walked into a Police station and allegedly confessed setting ablaze the Buganda...
El Asira’s first Muslim Halal online Sex Shop
Abdelaziz Aouragh, a 29-year old Dutch-Moroccan and a practicing Muslim, has launched El Asira, a rather unlikely, if not daring, enterprise in the Netherlands....
Africa: Make those homosexuals disappear!
In Uganda, there is a burning desire to send them to the gallows. Woe betide those who dare "marry" in Malawi. In Zimbabwe, President...
Nigeria: Sharia law takes precedence over freedom of speech
Issues of civility, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press is splitting the Nigerian public as Nigerian Islamic court bans the debate on...
Nigerians condemn Gaddafi’s call for Christian Muslim split
Nigerians have reacted to Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi's call on the Nigerian state to split on religions lines following the conflicts between Christians...
Morocco: Reactions over expulsion of foreigners continue
The expulsion last week of a group of foreign workers for "religious proselytism" at the Village of Hope, an orphanage situated near Ain Leuh,...
Somalia: Moderate Islamist group joins AU forces against Al-Shabab
Influential Muslim group have joined forces with African Union troops to wage war on al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab military group in Somalia. The Ahlu Sunna Wal...
Religious Hypocrisy and Arrogance
In recent times, it seems like religion, including Islam, the Catholic Church, the Republican Party and the Religious Right keep getting hit by sex...
Morocco’s expulsion of Christians abusive?
Sixteen Christian workers accused of religious “proselytism” were expelled from Morocco Tuesday. They were members of the Village of Hope, an orphanage located in...
Nigeria: Christian Muslim violence perpetrated by mercenaries?
The return to sectarian violence in the Plateau State city of Jos has been largely described as a revenge from the deadly attacks in...
US urges Nigeria to act on Jos killings
The United States of America has urged the Nigeria government to investigate the Jos killings and bring those involved to justice.
Media reports vary on...
Ugandan minister lashes out at Anglican cleric over gay-bill
Uganda's minister of state for ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo
has condemned the pro-gays who today presented a petition to Uganda's
speaker of parliament requesting...
Uganda: Anglican cleric seeks withdrawal of anti-gay bill
Pro-gays in Uganda have today petitioned Uganda parliament requesting
that the controversial gay bill which was tabled in parliament last year be withdrawn immediately.
The anti-gay...