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Egypt: Beyonce stirs political and religious debates ahead of concert
If there is one thing that could unite the muslims and Christians of Egypt, it is unlikely to be the raunchy dress style of...
The Great Deception: The Myth of a Non-Homosexual Africa
During the recent Synod of African Bishops in Rome, it appears the issue of homosexuality in Africa assumed some major significance. Archbishop Robert Sarah,...
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Mosque in spotlight over niqab ban
Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo is one of the oldest and most respected Sunni religious institutions in the world. It works hard to uphold the...
Exorcism, Malian Style
Then came the exorcisms. Pastor Michel performed at least ten. They unfolded with great drama. Most began with women—or in one case a young...
Laughter is the best medicine
Africans may be miserable and subjected to poverty but they are on the whole nice people forever thinking of the welfare of others even...
Egypt’s niqab ban a religious tug-of-war
Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of the al-Azhar mosque in Egypt, last Saturday ordered a schoolgirl to remove her niqab (Islamic veil), whilst visiting...
Morocco-France: Mysterious disappearance of an anti-fasting journalist
Zineb El-Rahzoui’s disappearance, Thursday, has innondated the Moroccan media. For some six days now, members of her family and the Moroccan Association of Human...
Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein prefers prison to a $200 fine
Arrested on the 3rd of July along with twelve other women in a restaurant in Khartoum for wearing a pair of trousers, Lubna Ahmed...
Somalia: Islamist insurgents disregarding Islamic teachings?
The Ramadan season has failed to bring a cease fire in Somalia as government forces, African Union peacekeepers and Islamist insurgents continue to do...
Nigeria: Government clampdown on Islamist extremism continues
The Nigerian government is taking no chance on budding Islamist extremism as the Nigerian police, on Saturday stormed and arrested over six-hundred people in...
Nigeria: al-Qaeda presence in Nigeria has been kept under wraps
To prove their merit in the Boko Haram affair that led to widespread violence in the northeastern states of Nigeria, the federal security services...
Nigeria: Is the death of Islamist rebel leader the end of a Rebellion?
The death of Mr. Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the Islamist rebel group that shook Nigeria's civil society, religious sphere, and democracy, in the last...
Nigeria: Islamists over-powerd by government forces
The Nigerian Military has successfully dispersed the Islamist group that has terrorized the northern part of the country in the last five days. Over...
Nigeria under an Islamist ordeal
The Nigerian government, Wednesday, claimed to have brought the violence in Maiduguri under control. The announcement came after the military bombed leader of...
Nigeria: Islamists’ nationwide Sharia demands raise alarm over deepening religious fissure
An extreme Islamist group demanding the imposition of Sharia law across Nigeria, has attacked a police station in Northern Nigeria, in protest of the...
Somalia: Islamist insurgents have shown their lack of regard for innocent Muslims
Somalia Islamist group al-Shabab have accused United Nations agencies in Somalia of being enemies of Islam and Somali Muslims. The al-Qaeda linked group have...
Brutal killing of Egyptian in Germany ‘Islamophobic’ says head of Jewish group
Germany has broken its silence. A week after the murder of an Egyptian woman, Marwa El-Sherbini, in a German court, Angela Merkel is expected...
President Barack Obama’s speech at the Cairo university: On a new beginning
President Barack Obama was Thursday in Cairo, where addressed reconciliation speech to the Muslim world. The American president called for an end to the...
Somalia: Repentant pirate groups cite Islamic teachings
The leader of a Somali group of pirates, Mr. Abshir Abdullah, has assured Somalia and the international community that the era of pirate activities...
Obama administration commits to Muslim dialogue
President Obama and his administration are fully committed to pursuing “a deep and positive dialogue with Muslims around the world based on mutual respect...
Egypt’s religious swine killings and unreligious lies
One hundred pigs thrown into a dumpster, gassed and buried in lime. A video posted on the Internet over the weekend by Al-Masri Al...
Egypt persecutes Christian pig farmers in the name of swine flu
Following the world wide Swine flu scare, Egyptian police officers were deployed to a slum in Cairo, with a mandate to slaughter every swine....
Coptic (Egyptian Christian) priest is unjustly tried and imprisoned in Egypt
Father Mattaos Wahba is the priest of Archangel Michael Church at Kerdasa, Geza, Egypt. He is a pious man of God who encourages...
A veiled Muslim woman at the US White House
A veiled Muslim woman at the White House? As impossible as that may sound, Dalia Mogahed, a young Muslim of Egyptian origin, has been...
Nigerian Withcraft: Pastor fights deceitful counterparts
A Nigerian pastor has called on fellow pastors in Nigeria to stop deceiving people with the notion of witchcraft. Apostle John Okoriko, the founder...
Nigeria: Religious interference in Education and a flimsy future
In recent years, a closer look at the Nigerian tertiary institutions reveals a worrisome skew from the epicentrum of scholarly life. Religious groups (both...
Egypt – Israel: Before the war of Kippour
Before the war of Kippour in 1973, Sadat had persuaded King Faisal to use petrol as an arm against the state of Israel... Yet...
Nobel Laureates to boycott South African conference if Dalai Lama is not granted visa
Opposition parties in South Africa have ganged up to condemn the government's decision not to issue a visa to Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai...
What has Africa done to organised religion to deserve this…
The recent declaration made by the Roman Catholic Pope on the use of condoms while on his way to Africa has caused widespread hue...
Catholic Church seeks damage control after Pope gaffe
Closing ranks behind Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, the Vatican fought back against the widespread international condemnation of the pontiff’s claim – made on...