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The Faith Of Scientists: In their own words

The Faith Of Scientists: In their own words

From Galileo to Richard Dawkins, from Einstein to Stephen Hawking, THE FAITH OF SCIENTISTS illuminates the spiritual beliefs of scientists—in their own words. Edited...
American Politics’ relationship with God and Race

American Politics’ relationship with God and Race

Religion has been a powerful political force throughout American history. When race enters the mix the results have been some of our greatest triumphs...
Algeria: A hostile ground for non-Islamic beliefs?

Algeria: A hostile ground for non-Islamic beliefs?

The Constitution provides for freedom of belief and opinion and permits citizens to set up institutions whose aims include the protection of fundamental liberties...
Saint Valentine’s Day: Originally North African?

Saint Valentine’s Day: Originally North African?

Saint Valentine’s day, sometimes referred to as the Lovers' day, was established to fight the last vestiges of paganism in Rome. It was carefully...
Islamic schools sending children to beg in the streets

Islamic schools sending children to beg in the streets

Nigeria's network of Islamic boarding schools, known as almajiri habours children as young as four or five and exploit them by sending them into...
Islamophobia: A new French plague?

Islamophobia: A new French plague?

Racist acts against Muslims has taken the French press by storm. After the defilement of gravestones at the military cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, in Northern...
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President Jammeh distributes free sheep !

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh Monday distributed rams to needy Muslims across the country as part of Edi-el-adha, locally known as Tobaski. Distributing the rams, Jammeh...
When older men long for young girls in the name of religion

When older men long for young girls in the name of religion

Zainab ran away from home, not because she was a rebellious child, a truant or a wayward girl. She was only 12 yeas old,...
Jos Nigeria clash: Almost 400 victims get mass burial

Jos Nigeria clash: Almost 400 victims get mass burial

Bodies of 376 victims of the violence that engulfed Jos, capital of Nigeria's North-central Plateau state, and its environs have been given a mass...
Ignorance the root of Muslim and Christian clash in Jos

Ignorance the root of Muslim and Christian clash in Jos

Only yesterday, a locally contested election between a Christian and a Muslim candidate resulted in mayhem after the Christian candidate emerged winner of the...
Islamic heads say women have the right to fight back

Islamic heads say women have the right to fight back

Sunni Islams highest authority, Egyptian Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al Atrash, has said that women have the right to fight back against their husbands if...
Ramadan feast drives food prices through the roof

Ramadan feast drives food prices through the roof

After the Ramadan fast, Muslims of the Northern Nigeria have complained of their inability to afford the food items with which to break the...
Man’s 86 wives and over 101 children stage protest march

Man’s 86 wives and over 101 children stage protest march

The 86 wives of an 84-year-old Nigerian man, Alhaji Bello Masaba, and some of his over 100 children staged a four-hour protest in Minna,...
Man with 84 wives remanded in prison could be put to death

Man with 84 wives remanded in prison could be put to death

An 84-year-old Nigerian Muslim with 86 wives, Alhaji Bello Abubakar Masaba, has been arrested and charged to an Islamic Sharia court in Bida, capital...
Scandal in Morocco : Legalising paedophilia through a fatwa

Scandal in Morocco : Legalising paedophilia through a fatwa

Cheikh Mohamed ben Abderrahmane Al-Maghraoui recently published a religious decree on an internet site calling for girls as young as nine years of age...
Nigerians flock back to their deserted gods

Nigerians flock back to their deserted gods

It appears the western and eastern gods no longer appeal to some Nigerian natives of the Yoruba tribe as the annual Osogbo festival of...
Islamic gov’t forces HIV patients to marry and orders them not to …

Islamic gov’t forces HIV patients to marry and orders them not to …

The Sharia government of a northern Nigerian state, Bauchi, has so far paired up over 150 HIV-positive victims in marriage, in the last few...
Man with over 80 wives to face islamic death sentence

Man with over 80 wives to face islamic death sentence

A foremost Islamic organisation in Nigeria has passed a death sentence (fatwa) on a Muslim, Muhammadu Bello Masaba, for marrying over 80 wives contrary...
Sex within and without the confines of Islamic laws in Kano

Sex within and without the confines of Islamic laws in Kano

Idris is a pimp and makes no bones about it. Because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria's northern city of Kano,...
Lawyer wants movie director to get 80 lashes

Lawyer wants movie director to get 80 lashes

An Egyptian lawyer has demanded that an Egyptian movie director be given 80 lashes for making a film said to have 'defamed' the country. But...
Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion

Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Religion

The continued vitality of religion has motivated many scholars in sociology, anthropology, political theory, international relations, and philosophy to revisit their assumptions about how...
African Anglican church : chronically homophobic or simply biblical ?

African Anglican church : chronically homophobic or simply biblical ?

The issue of an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in the United States has become the archbishop of Canterbury’s African kanker. A kanker he...
Islamic court rules against hereditary presidency

Islamic court rules against hereditary presidency

Egypt's Dar Al Aftaa, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating that the presidency of the country...
Shock over New Yorker cartoon depicting Obama as a Muslim and Michelle Obama as a terrorist

Shock over New Yorker cartoon depicting Obama as a Muslim and Michelle Obama as a terrorist

The magazine considered the bible of the white, liberal US intelligentsia was under attack on Monday for a satirical cover depicting Barack Obama as...
Is religion behind ‘severed’ diplomatic ties between Malawi and Libya ?

Is religion behind ‘severed’ diplomatic ties between Malawi and Libya ?

Malawi President Binguwa Mutharika has clarified what he termed as a "misconception" surrounding his country's diplomatic ties with Libya. This followed Malawi's decision to close...
Fatwa Divorce generating massive uproar from women

Fatwa Divorce generating massive uproar from women

A fatwa issued by a Mufti in Tunisia, allowing women to break matrimonial ties a third time a husband mentions divorce from...
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Vatican names a new Bishop for Cameroon

The Vatican has named Monseigneur Joseph Befe Ateba bishop of the new diocese at Kribi, in the south of Cameroon, a reliable ecclesiastical source...
Egypt’s Coptic Church fights for safety

Egypt’s Coptic Church fights for safety

Egypt's Coptic Christian community has called on the government to do more to protect the troubled minority. The plea comes after recent clashes between Copts...
Jewish community in Zimbabwe faces repatriation

Jewish community in Zimbabwe faces repatriation

Local embassies in Harare are drawing up emergency missions to airlift their people from volatile Zimbabwe as political violence intensifies. On Thursday it was reported...
killing of Coptic Christians by Muslims on the rise

killing of Coptic Christians by Muslims on the rise

Coptic Christianity practised in Egypt, a country that is home to one of the earliest Christian churches centuries, before the arrival of Islam and...