The HIV/AIDS pandemic, widespread poverty and protection of the environment are among key issues that churches will champion at the 7th World Social Forum to be held in Nairobi in January.

The first African National Eucharistic Congress will be held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and at the Catholic University of America, September 2-3.

Religious and civil society organizations have expressed their satisfaction with efforts by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to ensure free and fair elections on September 28.

Catholic and other church leaders have announced plans to initiate a process to heal the southern African nation paralyzed by a deepening economic crisis and bad governance.

The sixth pilgrimage to the Holy Place of Our Lady of Muxima (heart in the Kimbundu vernacular language) of the Catholic Church starts this Friday, in Bengo Province, under the theme "Vocation and Mission".

The Catholic charity Caritas is working with a local agency in Saurimo - a city in the Lunda-Sul Province - to reintegrate former rebel soldiers.

Free primary education in Zambia only exists on paper, with some schools continuing to levy fees and parents forced to mobilize resources to buy uniforms, books and other supplies.

Only sustained mediation and development - not the use of force by State security personnel - can restore peace among traditionally hostile herding communities in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, church leaders said.

The Catholic Church in Kenya is gearing up to celebrate the third anniversary of the death of the former archbishop of Nairobi, Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga, amidst expectations that the church will request the Vatican for early commencement of his

MONTPELIER, Vt. - A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire. Vermont District Court Judge Edward Cashman didn't mention the case that had made him a target

KAMPALA businessman Hajji Hassan Basajjabalaba has demanded that the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) must pay sh10.2b if it wants to recover the city plots that had been leased to a company owned by his relatives.

Can you rely on members of the Anglican Church to throw a nice party? Well, attend the launching of the Anglican Youth Fellowship's (AYF) latest album 70x7 and you will be surprised.

MEMBERS of the Christians Arts Promotions (Chapro) were last week interrogated by the police over Jojo Mwanagaza's Satanism rumours.

A group of 20 pastors have decided to take the bull by the horns and fight the rot that is threatening to destroy the born-again Christian churches in Uganda. The crusaders, calling themselves Arising for Christ - ARCH - are

Kyiv - On 30 August 2006 Ukraine's Parliament registered the bill "On introduction of changes and additions to certain legal acts of Ukraine," giving religious organizations the right to found schools. (Registration number 2020, author, National Deputy V. M. Stretovych

Lviv - "It is never too early to teach children religion, culture, and everything that is important in life." So said Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, on 30 August 2006, commenting on a statement made

Ivano-Frankivsk - At the decree of Roman Tkach, head of the Regional Administration in western Ukrainian Ivano-Frankivsk (IRA), real estate of the Pidlute health resort, situated in the village of Osmoloda, Rozhniativsky District, was given to the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchial Administration

From Crisis Magazine: In response to this unimaginable tragedy, AIDS experts have long had one simple, first-line solution: Use condoms. Indeed, since 1989, at least 4 billion condoms have been shipped to sub-Saharan African nations in the belief that they’d

COUPS became some sort of revolution. They came like a Messiah, to uplift particular societies from the grip of social ills and bad governance.

In Nigeria, we are happy and very quick to set boundaries of things to discuss and things not to discuss. We keep repressing ourselves as a people and refusing to move on as a nation because things are not meant