Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
January 15, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Kenya Islamic group claims ties to al-Shabab
An increasingly vocal Islamist group says its leader has been appointed to represent an al-Qaida-linked Somali militia in Kenya, a development that underscores the dangers Kenya faces from Somalia's insurgency.
January 14, 2012
- The Economist
Economist: The spreading northern insurgency
As the muffled boom of a distant bomb set off by militants gives way seconds later to the clatter of government soldiers’ automatic gunfire, Satu Mari listens in the car park of the hotel he owns in Maiduguri, a city in Nigeria’s turbulent north-east.
January 12, 2012
- The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Nigeria torn by rising religious violence
A spree of bomb blasts and machine-gun attacks attributed to an Islamic militia targeting Nigeria's Christians—and apparent reprisal attacks against Muslims—have stoked fears the government is powerless to halt escalating religious violence in Africa's most populous country.
January 08, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Nigeria leader references civil war in sect fight
Nigeria's president said Sunday that ongoing sectarian assaults by a radical Islamist sect are "even worse" than the country's 1960s civil war that saw 1 million people die — suggesting that the enemy this time could be lurking anywhere and everywhere.
January 02, 2012
- The Irish Times
Irish Times: At least 50 killed in ethnic clashes in Nigeria
Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria’s Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman has said, and according to police, mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.
December 27, 2011
- The Associated Press
AP: Analysis: Attacks highlight Nigeria's divisions
Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight.
December 09, 2011
- The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: HIV on the rise again in Uganda
Motorcycle taxi driver Richard Okiror has seen the devastating cost
of AIDS firsthand. He has watched people wasting away and dying from a
virus that infected nearly one-fifth of all adults in his country.
November 19, 2011
- The Associated Press
AP: Pope's new document outlines church role in Africa
In a
basilica built in the birthplace of Africa's Voodoo religion in Benin,
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday unveiled a treatise outlining the role of
the Catholic Church on the continent and explained how Catholicism can
help address Africa's chronic wars and interact with indigenous
practices.
November 05, 2011
- The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Opinion: A thousand fatwas for Somalia's al-Shabaab
A truck bombing by the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab that killed more than 100 people in Mogadishu last month – an attack that targeted students lined up for news about scholarships to Turkey – drew condemnation from the United Nations, Western states, the Somali Transitional Federal Government and Somali civic groups. But that made no difference at all.