NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — As calls for decolonization and reparations for the transatlantic slave trade gain momentum globally, African church leaders, theologians and religious scholars gathered June ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Pope Francis ministered to the poor in Kenya and kissed the feet of South Sudan’s feuding rulers in a plea for peace. He urged Christians and Muslims to reconcile in the Central ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Father Stan Chu Ilo is no stranger to the late Pope Francis. The Coordinating Servant of the Pan African Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) also worked closely with the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — African church leaders are speaking out against Libya’s move to shut down humanitarian organizations providing care to migrants and refugees being held in detention centers in ...

United Methodist Church recently ratified landmark restructuring giving regions outside U.S. more say. Many call it the "decolonizing" of the denomination after costly splintering. The Tennessean, ...

Cardinal Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Johannesburg, has offered a reflection on on the Catholic Church in South Africa.

The newly confirmed Primate of the African Church, Most Reverend Augustine Odufuwa, has pledged to lead the Church into a new era of growth and transformation within the next six months. He made the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Pentecostal church in South Africa celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages. The ...

Its survival down the centuries is a miracle worthy almost of Francis Xavier, its patron saint. The tiny chapel in Malindi, an ancient port on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, is believed to date to the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — At a three-day conference, African theologians and scholars considered how colonizing countries can make amends for historical wrongs and the place of forgiveness. NAIROBI, ...