NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — As calls for decolonization and reparations for the transatlantic slave trade gain momentum globally, African church leaders, theologians and religious scholars gathered June ...

The Catholic Church's conclave to select the next pope will begin May 7, with some wondering if the church will continue down the path of non-European pontiffs by electing an African pope. This ...

In a candid and wide-ranging interview with ADEOLA OGUNLADE, the Primate of the African Church, His Eminence Julius Osayande Olayinka Abbe, addressed head-on the deepening crisis rocking the historic ...

The First African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in North America and first brick structure owned by African Americans in the state of Georgia George Liele was born into slavery in 1750 in ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading Catholic nun in Africa has made the case for economic justice, urging the Catholic Church in Africa to use the Lenten period to “engage in economic decolonization, ...

A factional leadership has emerged in the African Church, threatening the position of Primate Julius Osayande Olayinka Abe. But Abe yesterday condemned the factional leadership, describing the group ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – The third Pan-African Catholic Jubilee on Theology, Society, and Pastoral Life opens August 5 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, under the theme “Journeying Together in Hope as a Church ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — African church leaders are speaking out against Libya’s move to shut down humanitarian organizations providing care to migrants and refugees being held in detention centers in ...

Ahead of Juneteenth, leaders of local, historic African American churches reflected on the importance of the church for the Black community in Decatur. Tags ...

FROSTBURG — Dickerson African Methodist Episcopal Church celebrated receiving a historic marker Tuesday in recognition of the church’s deep rooted African American history in Frostburg. “We stand on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — At a three-day conference, African theologians and scholars considered how colonizing countries can make amends for historical wrongs and the place of forgiveness. NAIROBI, ...