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Sunday, 22 February 2009 |
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It was a theatre of blood yesterday between the Yenagoa, Capital City of Bayelsa and the remote village of Ugheru in Ughelli Local Government Area of Delta State following the killing of two night clubbers and thirteen others identified to be members of the Ocean Boys Football Supporters Club in what was suspected to be a renewed cult clash. While the two unidentified clubbers were shot dead around 12am, close to a popular wine bar known as the Vegas and owned by a former local government chairman, Mr. Stephen Diver, the thirteen members of the Ocean Boys supporters club were attacked in broad day light on their way to Ugheli venue of the scheduled league match with their city rival, the Bayelsa United. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Sunday, 22 February 2009 |
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The Catholic church has disassociated itself from Thursday's public attack of the President and Prime minister by the religious leaders over government's performance during the prayer service for the victims of the Sachangw'an and Nakumatt fire tragedies held at KICC. Nairobi Archbishop Cardinal John Njue now says the Catholic Church opposes the venue and the manner the criticism was aired. Religious leaders from all the major faiths perhaps in a break from common decency took turns to publicly criticize the two principals over the government's performance especially in tackling corruption. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
Police clashed with more than 100 youths on New Year day and foiled recruitment by the outlawed Mungiki sect. Fifteen suspected members of the sect who were conducting the recruitment in Kirinyaga District were arrested and locked up at Kerugoya police station. SOURCE ARTICLE |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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The Moroccan government has banned an issue of the French magazine L'Express International, claiming it insults Islam in articles exploring the relationship between that religion and Christianity. Information Minister Khalid Naciri said Sunday that he had no choice but to ban the current issue because of the offensive nature of the articles it contained. The minister said the kingdom's press code allows the government to shut down or ban any publication deemed to offend Islam or the king. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
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Moroccan authorities have ordered the closure of dozens of schools and a Web site run by a Muslim religious leader who argued that girls as young as 9 could marry, local media reported Friday. Sheik Mohammed Ben Abderahman al-Maghraoui had issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, on his Web site saying it was lawful for a Muslim man to marry a 9-year-old girl because Islam's Prophet Mohammed had done so. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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Tunisia's Hannibal TV launched a new religious station on Monday (September 1st), timed with the first day of Ramadan. In a press statement, representatives of "Hannibal Elferdaws", the first channel of its kind in the country, said their plan is to "offer viewer-friendly style and truth, voicing the values of Islam that stress tolerance, humility, good manners and denouncing violence". FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
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Two men who converted from Islam to Christianity went on trial Wednesday on charges that they illegally promoted the Christian faith in Algeria. Rachid Mohammed Seghir, 40, and Jammal Dahmani, 36, were already convicted in absentia for illegal practice of a non-Muslim religion in 2007 but asked for a new trial, as Algerian law allows, their lawyer said. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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Bishop Sebastian Bakare of the Anglican Diocese of Harare, Zimbabwe, has issued a statement condemning the "brutality" of the local police who have repeatedly persecuted and assaulted Anglicans in an attempt to stop them from attending Sunday church services. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has said that the "continued brutal attacks on Anglicans seeking to worship in peace leaves little doubt that far stronger international action is needed to contain that nation's rapidly escalating political crisis." FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 16 March 2008 |
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The head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned Wednesday against an escalation of the ongoing violent clashes between police and followers of a religious sect. Alan Doss, the head of the MONUC mission, cautioned against an "excessive use of force" by the government, which is trying to re-establish its authority in the western Bas-Congo region where the Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) movement is active. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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Chanting Quranic verses, hundreds of thousands of mourners flocked to this holy city Sunday to visit the burial site of Senegal's late spiritual leader and to pay tribute to a man who led the most powerful Muslim brotherhood in the country. Serigne Saliou Mbacke died Friday at the age of 92 in the central city of Touba, hometown of the 19th-century religious leader who founded the country's so-called Mouride brotherhood more than a century ago. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
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Sixty religious leaders of various churches with the Council of Christian Churches in Angola (CICA) meet this Thursday at "Casa da Juventude (youths house)" in Viana district, with aim of discussing the role and importance of churches in the society. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
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Delivering a blistering rebuke to the Episcopal Church for its support of gay and lesbian rights, spiritual leaders representing tens of millions of Anglican Christians from around the world gathered here yesterday to consecrate two conservative American priests as bishops despite the opposition of the US church. As female worshipers ululated with joy, the archbishop of Kenya, Benjamin M. P. Nzimbi, declared that the two new bishops, William L. Murdoch of Massachusetts and Will G. Atwood III of Texas, would return to the United States to serve as missionaries to a nation that Nzimbi said is losing the Christian faith it once exported to Africa. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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The outlawed Mungiki movement is not involved in the senseless killings in Nairobi and parts of Central Province, a senior sect leader claims. The man, who only says he is a "senior Mungiki leader in the hierarchy," claims the mayhem in Kiambu, Murang'a and Nyeri, as well as Nairobi's Mathare slum area, is political. | <a href="http://ads.allafrica.com/adclick.php?n=x52cq9gwd" target="_blank"> <img src="http://ads.allafrica.com/adview.php?what=en,_inset,_kenya,-nonstory,en,_inset,_crime,-nonstory,en,_inset,_legalaffairs,-nonstory|en,_inset,_ros,-nonstory&n=x52cq9gwd&source=en,_inset,_kenya,-nonstory,en,_inset,_crime,-nonstory,en,_inset,_legalaffairs,-nonstory|en,_inset,_ros,-nonstory" border="0" alt=""/> </a> | "We are peace-loving people. We are not involved in the killings. There is totally no connection with Mungiki. This is not a Mungiki but a political issue. People should think about it seriously," he said in an exclusive interview. The so-called leader, who requested anonymity, said only a "small element" of Mungiki members is involved in the killings. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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For the past year, Yonas Tadesse has been trying to stave off the effects of HIV with a blend of science and faith — he takes anti-retroviral medicine but also drinks a liter of holy water, blessed by a priest. The combination has long been a source of controversy in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, where many local leaders believe patients should not take both holy water and medicine. But on Wednesday, Ethiopia's top religious official gave the treatment his blessing in a country where an estimated 1.5 million people are infected with HIV. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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The Presbyterian Mehret Yesus Church in Asmara, Eritrea, was raided by government forces during a Sunday Service on 29 April 2007, according to sources close to human rights NGO Release Eritrea-UK. Around 80 people were detained, including several foreign nationals and the head of the Eritrean Evangelical Alliance. According to a spokesperson for Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), the leader of the church, Reverend Zecharias Abraham, had been serving as head of the Eritrean Evangelical Alliance, since the arrest of the previous leader, Haile Naizgi, in May 2004. At least three American citizens were also reportedly amongst those detained. FULL ARTICLE LINK |
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