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Fredrick Nzwili

Fredrick Nzwili is a journalist and media consultant based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Church agencies call for action as extreme drought hits eastern Africa

When droughts strike in eastern Africa, clerics, church experts, and faith-based agencies are some of the first to mobilize to address food security and deliver humanitarian aid....

May 2, 2022

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Eritrean Orthodox patriarch dies in detention

Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on February 9 at age 94....

February 21, 2022

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Congo churches continue work to stop Ebola despite attacks by militants

A Methodist church-based messaging platform has sent hundreds of texts to people’s phones about how to prevent Ebola transmission.

June 17, 2019

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Sudanese Christians join popular protests, call for religious freedom

Members of Sudan’s Christian minority have taken a prominent role in the demonstrations that began in December.

May 1, 2019

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Religious leaders express hopes for CAR peace deal

Churches and mosques have been caught in the middle of violence in the Central African Republic, where militias have frequently fought over mineral resources.

February 21, 2019

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CAR priests killed amid faith leaders advocating for an end to the conflict

Firmin Gbagoua was the sixth Catholic priest to be killed. Fighters claim that religion is fueling the conflict—but religious leaders point to economic causes.

July 10, 2018

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Ugandan faith leaders weigh idea of accepting Israel's African refugees

Israel's government has offered financial incentives for thousands of asylum seekers to leave the country voluntarily—threatening to detain or deport them if they didn't.

May 11, 2018

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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.

April 27, 2018

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Rwandan authorities close hundreds of churches

Rwanda's president has criticized the number of churches in the capital, Kigali. There are more than 1,300 in the city of nearly 1.2 million.

March 23, 2018

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Church-organized protest in Congo leads to arrest of priests and nuns

Church leaders called for the protests after Sunday services to enforce an agreement for the president to step down and allow elections.

January 24, 2018

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HIV-positive pastor and his wife speak out about AIDS in East Africa

Samson Mulinge Mutuse and Evelyn Mueni Mulinge are among 260,000 Kenyan married couples where one spouse is HIV-positive and one HIV-negative.

December 5, 2017

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Aid groups seek funds as Sudan crisis worsens

The number of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda has reached 1 million.

August 25, 2017

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Severe drought brings starving Kenyans to church doorsteps

When her pantry is empty, Agnes Mwikali walks down a dusty road to the local Roman Catholic Church mission....

February 13, 2017

People

Retired Ugandan bishop seeks restorative justice for former child soldiers

Macleod Baker Ochola II, 84, a retired Anglican bishop in northern Uganda, is agitating for restorative justice in a region where the wounds of a brutal war unleashed by the Lord’s Resistance Army ...

January 4, 2017

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Muslim clerics disappearing near Kenya-Somalia border

As Kenyan coastal region sheikhs, imams, and preachers vanish in alleged killings and forced disappearances, their wives are demanding answers....

December 21, 2016

People

HIV-positive Anglican priest in Kenya works to change AIDS response

In a community where AIDS is still viewed as a death sentence, Rahab Wanjiru is working to build an HIV-aware church....

December 1, 2016