The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the patience of some religious leaders across Africa who worry they will lose followers, and funding, as restrictions on gatherings continue. Some evangelical Christian leaders in Uganda have launched a campaign with the now-universal phrase…
Allegation of Christian Genocide in Nigeria False, Misleading – Inter-Faith Forum
The Youth Christian and Muslim Forum of Nigeria (YCMFN) says allegations of Christian genocide in Nigeria by All-Party Parliamentary Group in the United Kingdom (APPG) is false and misleading. Instead of paint religious element behind violence in the country, the…
Living in faith in time like this
Faith is putting our trust, hope, assurance and confidence in the living God through service and obedience to Him. Romans 4:19. There have been reoccurrences of times and events, though with different people with related events at diverse time. This…
The power of faith
There are two kinds of faith revealed in the above scriptures. The book of Romans captures a general faith that applies to everybody and can be exercised by anybody who believes, while Habakkuk talks about personal faith that can only be appropriated…
Archbishop Kaigama Encourages Inter-Faith Collaboration
Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has commended Muslims and Christians for their collaboration in seeking solutions during Covid-19 and encouraged them to keep finding areas of collaboration for the sake of harmony, peaceful co-existence and…
Ese Oruru – When a Nigerian Court Proclaims God As Not a Child Molester
By Chidi Odinkalu … the conviction of Yunusa Yellow is a signal moment for legal and social policy and for the protection of coexistence in the enjoyment of the right to freedom of conscience and religion in Nigeria. Those who…
Ugwuanyi Calls for Prayers, Abiding Faith in God
On the occasion of this year’s Eid-el-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has enjoined Muslims and indeed all Nigerians, to remain resolute in their abiding faith in God, through prayers and sacrifice, as…
One church’s large coronavirus outbreak was traced back to a pastor and his wife who attended a service before they developed symptoms, CDC says
A new CDC report examined what happened after two seemingly-healthy people attended church events in Arkansas, and then developed COVID-19 symptoms a few days later. 35 out of 92 attendees got COVID-19, and three of them died, according to the…
COVID-19: There’s one thing Nigeria’s religious rockstars can do to help
Nigeria’s faith leaders are immensely influential and often have millions of followers. If they want to help, they should stay out of the way. Several religious leaders in Nigeria have congregations of millions of people. Credit: Peter Egbumokei. Earlier this…
Coronavirus: Nigeria’s mega churches adjust to empty auditoriums
The auditoriums of Nigeria’s mega churches are empty and their gates are shut as they are forced to observe a government ban on large gatherings to halt the spread of coronavirus. But it took not only threats, but force and…