Botswana overturns law criminalizing gay and lesbian sexual relationships
Botswana, like dozens of countries worldwide, inherited its law on gay sex from the British Empire. In recent years momentum has been building to repeal those laws.
Rwanda’s Catholic clinics strike a compromise with government on providing access to contraception
The government wanted to increase birth control use. But the Catholic Church runs about a third of the country’s hospitals and clinics. So they struck a deal.
Nigerian interfaith couple perseveres in the city where Boko Haram began
Aisha and Vincent Anibueze, a Muslim and a Christian, have found ways to thrive despite violence in Maiduguri.
Despite being targets of violence, Congolese priests and aid workers continue to confront crisis
Several priests and aid workers have been kidnapped, and earlier this month a priest was murdered. Conflict in several regions has left millions in need.
Congolese Catholic Church moves from state partner to 'spiritual opposition'
Most of Congo’s antigovernment protests—including several in February that saw at least two people killed—have begun on the steps of a Catholic Church.
In Namibia's abortion debate, echoes of a repressive history
Activists such as Rosa Namises see the nation's abortion law as an inheritance from a racist government—one that contributes to high maternal death rates.
Pentecostal Christianity is a top Nigerian export
(The Christian Science Monitor) The roads that wind north from Lagos, Nigeria, toward the headquarters of the Winners’ Chapel megachur...
Recovering from Ebola, Sierra Leone communities strive for reconciliation
(The Christian Science Monitor) The greatest betrayal of James Keppa’s life took only as long as uttering these words: we need an amb...
Cases from apartheid era resurface in South Africa
(The Christian Science Monitor) Joyce Ledwaba’s son Samuel was 17 years old when he disappeared from their Pretoria home in 1986....