LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Temitope Balogun Joshua, one of Africa’s most popular televangelists who was known as T.B. Joshua, has died. He was 57. The Nigerian-born pastor was founder of the mega church Synagogue Church…
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An evangelical Christian pastor — who showed off packed church services in defiance of a state order — has died from the coronavirus, the New York Post reports. Bishop Gerald O. Glenn of Richmond, Va.’s…
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Pope Francis is opening a three-nation pilgrimage to southern Africa with a strategic visit to Mozambique, just weeks after the country’s ruling party and armed opposition signed a new peace deal…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis heads this week to the southern African nations of Mozambique, Madagascar, and Mauritius, visiting some of the world’s poorest countries in a region hard hit by some of his…
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An appeal for peace during Congo’s tense, volatile election period was issued at a Christmas Eve midnight mass in Kinshasa. The newly appointed Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo called on President Joseph Kabila’s…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian police on Thursday requested that a popular faith healer face criminal charges related to accusations by hundreds of women that he sexually assaulted or raped them. João Teixeira de Faria, known…
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A bishop is vowing to relocate a priest who was quietly placed in an Iowa retirement home close to a Roman Catholic school despite his history of sexually abusing boys….
22612261FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A Roman Catholic diocese acknowledged Wednesday that it concealed for decades a priest’s admission that he sexually abused dozens of Iowa boys — a silence that may have put other…
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – The movement of a jailed Nigerian Shi’ite cleric whose followers have repeatedly been targeted by the authorities said on Wednesday security forces had killed 42 of its members during two days…
AJIDO, Nigeria (AP) — Excitement grew in the crowd as the Zangbeto festival reached a climax, with scores of colorful palm-frond figures representing the traditional guardian of the night. As men and women in white…