Visit the homepage for more information. Native African Religions The Context Africa is big. It is the second largest continent in the world. Even if the northern countries of the continent, which ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

The devil, satan or Lucifer is an imported religious concept from Europe. In African religion, good and bad spirits exist, but only as impersonalised spiritual forces. In Christianity and Islam ...

As Israel’s war on Hamas continues, Catholic Bishops in northern Africa have condemned the manipulation of the Bible to ...

Although the rise of the Christian right holds promise for humanitarian crises in Africa and religious freedom is back at the ...

Thus both religions have been on the continent of Africa for over 1,300 years. Some would argue that both Islam and Christianity are indigenous African religions. Not everyone shares this view.

Africa in the early period of European colonialism. In some cases where the original religions of people were not suppressed following the uptake of Abrahamic religions, there was a fusion between ...

Religious intolerance - in one of the most religious countries in Africa if not the world - is one of the issues dominating debate ahead of next year's elections. It is rare to find a Nigerian who ...