Sudan’s vicious civil war is nearly two years old. Over 150,000 people are dead, and 12 million displaced, in the world’s ...

The ready availability of small arms will keep Nigerian security in ICU for a long time if not tackled head-on, reckons AUSTIN ISIKHUEMEN ...

Aga Khan, the religious leader of the Ismailis – a sect of Islam – established the Aga Khan Foundation in 1967. It has served ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Thanking the Archbishop of Dakar, Benjamin Ndiaye, for hosting the gathering, the Vatican Undersecretary described it as "a ...

Last year, a handful of Salesian nuns worked to keep a small school and religious center in Khartoum open. As siege-like ...

ShareThe recent disclosure made by the Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Tijani Ahmed, to the effect that over 400,000 ...

Gris-gris are rooted in traditional African faiths that believe vital powers in animals and nature may be unlocked — to harm, ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has asked Chad for military support to help fight a spiralling insurgency by Rwanda-backed M23 ...

Russia is expanding its influence in Africa as democracy wanes, with military strongmen carrying out coups and the United ...

Vital humanitarian activities that Jesuit Refugee Service leads in nine countries remain in jeopardy, JRS says, even after a ...