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Africa
Nigeria Declares Emergency Rule as Christians Debate Amnesty for Boko Haram Islamists
(UPDATED) Controversial proposal to end terror campaign creates another faultline for Christians in Africa's most-populous nation.
May 14, 2013
Our Lenten Thirst for Justice
40 days drinking, walking, and raising big bucks for clean water.
March 22, 2013
African Pastors Lead Crusade for Circumcision
Religious leaders join effort to circumcise 20 million adult men in fight against HIV.
January 2, 2013
How Not to Care for Widows
After her husband's death, a typical East African widow may face property theft or eviction. But faith-based advocates are turning the tables.
October 24, 2012
Liberia: Getting Back to the Founding Faith
Believers debate re-labeling the country a 'Christian nation.'
June 4, 2012
The Ceasefire Prayer Behind Leymah Gbowee's Nobel Peace Prize
How faith led to a Nobel Peace Prize winner's push for reconciliation.
April 20, 2012
A Crackdown on International Adoptions
The rate of adoptions in Ethiopia has declined 90 percent.
February 7, 2012
Pentecostal Renewal Transforms Rwanda after Genocide
Survivors flock to charismatic churches as a haven for healing.
January 3, 2012
Out of Africa: What AMIA's Exodus from Rwanda Portends for Global Christianity
Break underscores the difficulty of shifting denominational power across cultures and continents.
December 9, 2011
Leaving Rwanda: Breakaway Anglicans Break Away Again
Dispute between African bishops and Anglican Mission in the Americas prompts U.S. leadership to leave body.
December 7, 2011
Fighting Famine Isn't Enough
Some 2,000 Somalis die of starvation daily. Drought isn't the reason.
November 4, 2011
Anti-Christian Backlash After South Sudan’s Secession
Churches attacked and threatened with demolition as Bashir reiterates promise to make Sudan strictly Islamic.
October 26, 2011
The Messy Business of Clean Water in Africa
Drilling for truth in the Central African Republic.
October 26, 2011
Q & A: Katie Davis on Raising a Dozen Children at 22
The Nashville native is feeding and caring for thousands and raising children on her own.
October 25, 2011
Aid on the Edges
What turned Somalia into the epicenter of a famine hinders attempts to help. And now even the refugee camps are targets.
October 19, 2011
Undoing the Famine Damage
If the famine in the Horn of Africa is manmade, human intervention can end the crisis.
October 12, 2011
'Machine Gun Preacher' Under Heavy Fire
Sam Childers, subject of a new movie, is accused of neglecting children at his orphanage in South Sudan.
September 22, 2011
Tanzanians Throng to Miracle Cure
Churches debate healing power of pastor's cure.
September 20, 2011
Growing in the Word
What the Ethiopian Orthodox have learned from the expansion of evangelicals.
September 16, 2011
Famine in East Africa: Who Cares?
Several Christian NGOs are on the move, provided they can get the appropriate funds.
August 19, 2011
Ethiopia's River of Death
A handful of tribal Christians are fighting child sacrifice.
August 17, 2011
Zimbabwean Churches Told to Support Ruling Party—or Else
Mugabe regime violently targeting wide spectrum of congregations.
August 10, 2011
No More Band-Aids: Shannon Sedgwick Davis Wields Law to Halt Genocide
Why the president of the philanthropic Bridgeway Foundation says money alone won't fix the problem.
August 4, 2011
Alternative Capitalist: How a Coffee Business Brews Reconciliation
Why Jonathan Golden helps farmers in Rwanda.
June 6, 2011
The Foot-Washers of Ethiopia
A mysterious disease, misdiagnosed for decades, finds healing in Christian hands.
May 31, 2011
Christian Microfinance Stays on a Mission
While scandals rock the microfinance industry, Christian nonprofits diversify their efforts to help the poor.
May 27, 2011
Magic Words: Ghanaian Churches Confront Fake Pastors
Ghana's church planting boom has left denominations struggling to keep opportunists out of pulpits.
May 12, 2011
Pushing Back the Desert: Niger's Christians Get Creative for Daily Bread
'Give us this day our daily bread' is both a prayer and a project for Christians living in one of the world's poorest countries.
April 6, 2011
Tough Calling in Africa
Two doctors who would rather serve where surgical equipment is dated and wards are overflowing.
April 6, 2011
Idolatry, the Gospel, and the Imitation of God
Why evangelicals have taken such an interest in idols.
March 24, 2011
The Uganda Conspiracy Theory
Activists have targeted the country as murderously homophobic.
March 15, 2011
Somali Pirates Kill Bible Distributors
Scott Adam, a graduate of Fuller Seminary, was killed with three others after they were taken hostage.
February 22, 2011
Living the Love
Part II of the Cape Town Commitment spells out what the Lausanne Movement's theological manifesto means for the practice of ministry and mission.
January 28, 2011
Good news on AIDS in Africa
Deaths are down, and the heroes of the story aren’t who you think. (Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb, Slate)
Global data upend usual picture of Christianity trends
While the discipline of religious demography is emergent, its initial findings about the changing landscape of global religious life pose deep questions about enculturation, theological formulation, and church organization. (ACNS)
Blasts Hit Military Church in Nigeria
KADUNA, Nigeria—Twin suicide car bombs exploded Sunday at a church inside one of Nigeria's top military bases, killing at least 11 people and wounding another 30 in an attack that shows the continued insecurity that haunts Africa's most populous nation. (AP/The Wall Street Journal)
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