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CIVIL society organisations in SA are to press the government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to hasten resolution of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
"Without swift, decisive action by the international community there is a danger that the peace agreement will collapse and violence will escalate in Sudan," Gerrit Noltensmeier, the special representative for Sudan of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) said in a statement to mark the anniversary of the signing of the pact.
The government of Kenya has assured Italy that it will do all it can to secure the release of two nuns held by gunmen in Somalia.
South African civic and church leaders, as well as former anti-apartheid activists, are set to come together to press the country's government and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to find an urgent solution to the Zimbabwe crisis.
The Gambia is a peaceful country. The people, regardless of ethnic identity or political affiliations, are living in peace, love and harmony. The secret behind this success story is the enviable prevailing religious tolerance, which enables the different religious groups in the country to co-exist.
As Gambians ushered in the Muslims and Christians New Year, Imam Momodou Lamin Touray, the president of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC) has shifted his weight to the youth folk of this country, particularly young girls, imploring on them to ensure decent dressing in society.
The Chronicle is a witness to a special covenant that the good people of Ghana made with candidate Mills, and which they have subsequently honoured their part of the bargain, resulting in the grand investiture which was held on Wednesday, at the Independence Square.
There is a change in the management of one of the leading Catholic colleges in Eastern Africa, based here.
African Protestant and evangelical churches have expressed disgust at the ongoing bloody violence between Israel and Palestine and called for its immediate end.
Ahead of his first visit to the continent with the fastest growing Catholic population worldwide, Pope Benedict XVI has urged Africans to build peace by fighting moral and material poverty.
Mr. John-Kennedy Opara, Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) yesterday in Abuja, said that pilgrims would not be allowed to visit the volatile areas in Israel.
Sierra Leone on Wednesday joined other nations around the world to observe Ashura day and commemorating the month of Muharram at the Sierra Leone international institute of Islamic studies, Wilkinson Road in Freetown.
The Bauchi State Governor,Malam Isa Yuguda, has tasked intending Christian pilgrims performing the 2008 pilgrimage to be good ambassadors of the state considering that the state has a reputation of ensuring that its pilgrims return home after their religious exercise.
Deputy Governor of Yobe State, Alhaji Ibrahim Geidam, has confirmed the death of five pilgrims from Yobe State in Mecca of Saudi Arabia shortly after completing the hajj exercise, while 2,725 pilgrims returned from Saudi Arabia
Members of the jailed notorious Lagos pastor, Chukwueme Ezeugo, a.k.a Rev. King, have been trooping to his current prison in Kuje, FCT, for blessing and fellowship.
IT has always been the same with me, every time the new year ushers in, I tend to make a number of resolutions. I always intend to adhere to them but distractions of this world seem to always lure me away from fulfilling the goals.
Adequate capacity and effective organisation are the two major factors that made the 2008 Hajj operation successful, compared to two previous Hajj when pilgrims were abandoned at the Holy Land long after pilgrimage.
THE Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda has enjoined Christian pilgrims going to Jerusalem to maintain good behaviour while in the holy land. In his farewell address to 327 pilgrims going to the holy land, Yuguda said the state had received several awards for the conduct of pilgrims, urging them to maintain the standard.
BRACE yourselves for the return of Suzette Sajjabbi, one of the pioneer local gospel music singers.
President Ernest Bai Koroma has called on all Sierra Leoneans to be faithful to God. Mr. Koroma made this clarion call during his New Year's Day broadcast to the nation.
The Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika, or Reformed Churches in South Africa (GKSA), began their annual general synod on 4 January in Potchefstroom, which is also a university town, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Johannesburg.
The Muslim Brothers also addressed as Shiite has debunked media reports that it attacked the entourage of the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, during the group Ashura's day precession on Tuesday in Zaria, a situation that led to the burning of the house of a frontline Shiite and publisher of Almizan, whose house was set ablaze in retaliation of attack on the Emir of Zazzau's entourage.
TEN nuns of the Daughters of St. Theresa on Tuesday took perpetual vows, vowing to die serving God.
A CHURCH grouping has expressed its concern about the growing political intolerance in KwaZulu-Natal which may lead to renewed political violence ahead of this year's general election.
Eritrean citizens inside the country and abroad today celebrated Christmas in a colorful manner.
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