Africa

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — As Rwanda marks 30 years since the 1994 genocide, the Catholic bishops in the country have expressed their closeness to survivors of the killings, while …

(OSV News) — The majority of Christians in Burkina Faso are now shying away from Sunday services and instead praying at home after a series of deadly attacks by Islamist …

(OSV News) — Recent kidnappings of hundreds of people in Nigeria, including almost 300 schoolchildren March 7 in Kuriga in the central part of the country, have left church leaders …

(OSV News) — The Australian Catholic University’s Center for Liturgy offered a training program for lay liturgical ministers of the Word in Nigeria. The program, delivered online, aims to equip …

By Valentine Benjamin WUKARI, Nigeria (OSV News) — It was a day Andre Nkoulou from Cameroon will never forget. On Sept. 19, 2018, armed groups and government forces laid siege …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Paul Mackenzie, the self-proclaimed Kenyan pastor who shocked the country and the world after he drove his followers into mass “starvation suicide,” has been charged …

By Valentine Benjamin ABUJA, Nigeria (OSV News) — While religion was not originally an issue linked to conflicts in the country, deeply rooted religious hostility has in recent decades created …

By Ngala Killian Chimton YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (OSV News) — The bishop of Mamfe in Cameroon’s volatile Southwest region has strongly condemned the Nov. 6 “massacre” in Egbekaw village in his …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — When Pope Francis released his apostolic exhortation “Laudate Deum” (“Praise God”) was released Oct. 4, its message echoed loudly across Africa, where millions of ordinary …

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (OSV News) — A Catholic priest and three Catholic teachers in Cameroon’s troubled southwest region are recovering from bullet wounds after they were shot in what church authorities …