Executions had been on a seven-year hiatus in the African nation.

The designate as Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Justin Welby, was once an oil company executive.

A radical transformation of African societies appears to be the goal of the African Union, in league with organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

Concerned people in Spain are funding aid to children in Central Africa who have been raped and subjected to other violence. Babies, whose mothers are dead or dying of AIDS, are given powdered milk to replace breast milk.

It is all about oil, says a Catholic archbishop about the current fighting between Sudan and South Sudan.

Africa and Asia together will account for 86 per cent of all growth in the world?s urban population over the next four decades, the United Nations said today, adding that this unprecedented increase will pose new challenges in terms of jobs, housing and infrastructure.

The God of peace and justice give us the capacity to change.

Until they figure out how to use IEDs effectively, Boko Haram may remain just a regional threat. For now.

The persecution against Christians mingled with violence against the Arab revolution. In a year more than 1000 dead, thousands injured, 1200 have lost one or both eyes, because the police shoot at eye level.

Joblessness among young people, and fears of modernity, provide the fodder for the growing Boko Haram movement in Nigeria.

Rev. Dr. Olav Fyske Tveit, who leads the World Council of Churches, says the upcoming climate conference in South Africa is mankind's 'last opportunity' to address climate change.

Africans flee from farming even while foreign interests are swallowing up land as a new colonial era emerges.

Nobel Prize-winning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling on the world to join him in demanding that world leaders sign on to a renewal of the Kyoto Protocol this December in South Africa. Joining him is the 'human polar bear', among others.

Advocacy groups claim that Sudan is engaging in aerial bombardment and extermination project in South Sudan. Muslims and Christians are targetted.