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January 04, 2011 - Religion News Service
RNS: Technology unites missionaries, families around the world
Janine Winkler loves reading books to her 2-year-old grandson Judah, but instead of sitting on her lap at her home in Michigan, he's usually half a world away in Nigeria, where his father works for Wycliffe Bible Translators.
January 03, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Bomb blasts, church attacks show violent Christian, Muslim split in Nigeria ahead of election
Multiple explosions rocked a central Nigerian city, another bomb killed at least four at an army barracks in the capital and a radical Muslim sect burned churches in the northeast.
January 03, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: As vote nears, Sudan's south anticipates independence and problems
A pistol sits next to a battered radio while Peter Bashir Bandi, a rebel turned political leader, lounges in a gold brocade chair listening to reports about what may soon be the world's newest, and most precarious, nation.
December 08, 2010 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Africa, homosexuality emerging as hot-button issue
Long seen as a fringe societal taboo far from the realm of African politics, homosexuality is emerging as a hot-button issue throughout much of the continent.
December 05, 2010 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Muslim World: Poll shows majority want Islam in politics; feelings mixed on Hamas, Hezbollah
A majority of Muslims around the world welcome a significant role for Islam in their countries' political life, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, but have mixed feelings toward militant religious groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
December 02, 2010 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Undisclosed Muslim country 'paying for anti-piracy force in Somalia'
An undisclosed "Muslim nation" is funding a 1,000-strong, privately trained military force in northern Somalia and has hired a former CIA officer and a senior official from the Bush administration to advise the Somali government on security matters, according to a report.
November 24, 2010 - Religion News Service
RNS: Blasphemy resolution passes U.N. committee
A resolution combating the "vilification of religions" was adopted Tuesday (Nov. 23) by a United Nations committee, but religious freedom advocates who oppose the measure say support for it continues to diminish.
November 23, 2010 - The Associated Press
AP: Hit by AIDS, Africa welcomes pope's condom message
From clerics to AIDS activists, Africans applauded Pope Benedict XVI's suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations to protect partners — a shift that could make a dramatic impact in a continent that is both battling an HIV pandemic and is the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic church.
November 19, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Putting a cap on bad juju conjures up a good business
This megacity's motorcycle taxis are so dangerous that local hospitals have special orthopedic wards meant just for people who have suffered accidents while riding them.
November 17, 2010 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Ignoring death threats, Somali broadcaster lets the music play, defying Islamist edict
How do you create a radio network in the world’s most dangerous country, where war is raging, journalists are killed, and Islamic extremists have banned music, sports and women’s voices on the airwaves?
November 17, 2010 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Support for female circumcision declining in Africa, study shows
Some experts thought it was so embedded in traditional culture that it would never change. But new evidence shows that African countries have made surprising progress in reducing the rate of female genital cutting, a controversial and often illegal practice that can cause lifelong injury and illness to girls and women.
November 14, 2010 - The Associated Press
AP: Israel welcomes last Ethiopians of Jewish descent
After years of languishing in makeshift shelters in the Horn of Africa, the final remnants of an Ethiopian community claiming Jewish descent received permission Sunday to move to Israel.
November 02, 2010 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Uganda newspaper stokes anti-gay sentiment
Stosh, a 33-year-old lesbian, lived a secret life because of a Ugandan law against homosexuality until a newspaper recently identified her as gay.
October 18, 2010 - The New York Times
NYT: Killings in Nigeria are linked to Islamic sect
A rash of mysterious killings by gun-wielding motorcycle assassins of policemen, politicians and others in this city near the desert has led authorities to declare that a radical Islamic sect thought to have been crushed by Nigerian troops last year has been revived.
October 02, 2010 - The Australian
The Australian: Religious baby boom primed to send shock waves through secular world

We know about the aging of developed countries and the number of people on the move, but the figures can still startle.

September 20, 2010 - The Associated Press
AP: Somalia's prime minister resigns amid tensions

Somalia's prime minister resigned Tuesday after months of turmoil with the country's president, saying their infighting had become a "security vulnerability" in a country battling an Islamic insurgency and rampant piracy.

September 16, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Nigerian president will run

President Goodluck Jonathan announced his intention to run in January's presidential election on Wednesday, ending months of uncertainty and setting the stage for a standoff with powerful Muslim Nigerians opposed to his candidacy.

September 16, 2010 - The Economist
The Economist: What's to be done? The Americans are at a loss to decide how to take on Somalia’s jihadists

DOES it matter to the United States that Somalia is becoming a hotbed of global jihad? The answer most often heard in Washington is impenetrable.

September 13, 2010 - The New York Times
NYT: A Beninois priest seeks new respect, and new practitioners, for voodoo

This is not about secretive mutterings in the dead of night or freakish eccentrics, explained Dah Aligbonon Akpochihala, an eminent voodoo priest who has taken to the airwaves to preach the old messages of faith, fidelity and obedience integral to his religion. It is about bringing a younger generation on board.

September 08, 2010 - The Associated Press
AP: Muslim sect's prison attack raises new fears in Nigeria

A radical Muslim sect used assault rifles to launch a coordinated sunset raid on a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing more than 100 followers and raising new fears about violence in the oil-rich nation just months before elections.

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