To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

Sudan's civil war has overwhelmed a border town in neighboring Chad. Nearly a quarter-million refugees have arrived in Adre ...

Though other factors are surely at play, church leaders in Nigeria insist the attacks are part of a systematic campaign to ...

Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla urged the United Nations, the African Union and other nations with influence to use it to ...

As the International Religious Freedom Summit takes place in Nairobi, Kenya, one priest says “Africa is becoming increasingly ...

Nairobi, 15 June, 2025 / 11:29 pm (ACI Africa). The Tuesday, June 17 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit at Kenya’s Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, the first-ever regional conference to be ...

Nairobi, 14 June, 2025 / 11:27 pm (ACI Africa). Most African women Religious are middle children and not firstborns or lastborns, a study by the Centre for Research in Religious Life and Apostolate ...

Well, it may or may not have been real, but it did not come from Kennedy’s imagination. “The Treatise of the Three Impostors” was a long-rumored book denying all three Abrahamic religions — ...

Wars, weather and waning aid: Africa facing its worst humanitarian crisis Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 7 min read. Asha Kano Kavi, an internally displaced woman from Kadugli, serves wild boiled leaves ...

Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of ...

Religious change. Sub-Saharan Africa’s overall population is growing fast, and the same is true for its two largest religious groups. Between 2010 and 2020, the number (or count) of Christians grew to ...

Christianity remains the majority faith in all regions except for Asia Pacific and the Middle East-North Africa region and is now the most geographically dispersed religious group, the study shows.