Category: Religion

High-caste Hindus who have been harassing a church in Nepal forced it to shut down last week, sources said. For two months Brahmins, the highest caste from which Hindu priests and teachers are drawn, in western Nepal’s Palpa District had disrupted worship of the Pakhluwa Eternal Life Church in Palpa each week and accused pastor […]

A faith-based organization in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, is working to help veterans and first responders who have experienced trauma to recover physically, mentally and spiritually. Reboot Alliance is a faith-based organization that’s goal is to “provide a unique blend of clinical insight with Christian faith-based support” to Veterans, first responders and their families, in an […]

Sidewalk prayers near shoot-up spots. Sunday sermons in the back of a bar. Pleas to struggling souls to surrender to God. Funerals for members of their flock who didn’t make it. Clergy members have become spiritual first responders in the opioid crisis, often leaving the pulpit to minister on the streets. They can be reverends, […]

Factually speaking, Bible of Love, the latest album by the Doggfather himself is impressively thorough in its representation of the saving grace and expansive love of God. From beginning to end, BOL glorifies the Lord with a quintessential gospel sound while spotlighting Snoop Dogg’s testimony of encountering this love in his own life. Here’s the thing. Snoop is […]

Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr., caused quiet a stir in Hollywood after declaring himself to be a born-again Christian. He recently just released his first gospel album “Bible of Love.” The album features a wide range of other gospel artists, including Fred Hammond, The Clark Sisters, Pastor John P. Kee and […]

MTN Joyous Celebration is returning to Cape Town’s shores to record their next album instalment, Joyous 23, after 10 years since the group last recorded in the city. From the 13th to the 15th of December, the multiple award-winning and internationally acclaimed gospel ensemble promises a unique and intimate experience of praise and worship in […]

The Motsepe Foundation will partner with various religious persuasions for the second National Prayer Day at the FNB Stadium in the south of Johannesburg this month. In efforts to rid South Africa of its social ills, the event will see citizens praying for the country throughout the day. Last year, the event brought together over 100 000 […]

On Tuesday, Italy said that it is working to help relocate the family of a Pakistani Christian woman who had been acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, due to warnings from her husband that the family’s life is in danger in Pakistan. The Foreign Ministry said it would work closely with […]

OPINION Senior police management in KwaZulu-Natal are ordering Muslim policemen to shave their beards. How does a beard have anything to do with a policeman being able to apply the rule of law, or be fair? SA is a secular state, religious freedom is guaranteed in that context. For everyone to enjoy the right to […]

The Monarch of the predominantly Christian Adara region of Kaduna State, Central Nigeria, Agom  Adara, Maiwada Galadima, who was kidnapped by suspected Islamic militia, on 19 October, has been killed and his body dumped at Katari village, along Kaduna-Abuja road, despite payment of N10 million (about £22,000) made for his release. The details about the payment of the ransom […]