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June 28, 2016
Levels of religious restrictions and hostilities among the world’s 25 most populous countries — where more than 5 billion of the globe’s roughly 7.5 billion people live —...
June 27, 2016
By Charles Karis   Nairobi — Seventy-three-year-old Dorcus Auma effortlessly weaves sisal fronds into a beautiful basket as she walks the tiny path that snakes up a hill. She...
Christian students wore religious clothes over their school uniforms
June 26, 2016
In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at how the latest religious tension in Nigeria is playing out in what...
June 23, 2016
Overall decline in religious restrictions and hostilities despite continued rise in religion-related terrorism Worldwide, both government restrictions on religion and social...
June 17, 2016
Cherishing One Another, Against the Odds Author:  Lamin Sanneh I recently finished a study of the ummah, the faith community in Sunni Islam, and in the process was...
Yaweh Joy Ventures
June 7, 2016
Kumasi, Ghana   Driving through Ghana’s Ashanti region, you quickly notice there are possibly as many churches as gas stations. Given the country’s 71% Christian population,...
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April 5, 2016
Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam by Lamin Sanneh Description:  Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of...