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Explosion kills, injures worshipers at inaugural mass in Tanzania
Fear and grief rocked a predominantly Christian area of northern Tanzania yesterday after an unidentified man reportedly hurled an explosive device at the inaugural Mass of a new church building, killing two worshipers
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Muslim Extremists in Somalia Seize, Torture Convert from Islam
Somali refugees in border town of Liboi, Kenya, en route to other parts of Kenya. (UNHCR photo) NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim militants still controlling part of the Lower Shebelle Region of Somalia have jailed an...
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Kenyan religious groups ready to work with President-elect, despite his war crime indictment
‘Let them have a chance to speak at the Hague, and let the ICC decide’, says Catholic leader , March 13 (World Watch Monitor) —
Amongst their first formal meetings as President and Deputy President-elect of Kenya, Uhuru ...
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Antiretroviral drugs sold for food in Kenya’s slums
Impoverished Kenyans living with HIV/AIDs are sometimes selling their antiretroviral drugs to buy food for themselves and their families.
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Burned church is latest in string of Tanzanian attacks
Clashes with Islam in an otherwise ‘peaceful country’, February 25 (World Watch Monitor) —
Arsonists burned a Tanzania church Feb. 19 in the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar, two days after gunmen killed a Catholic pr...
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Kenyan church leaders say cohabitation laws would weaken marriage
Kenyan church leaders are lining up in opposition to proposed new marriage bills, which they say will weaken marriage by allowing cohabitating couples to register as married.
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One year later, conditions improve at Dadaab camp in Kenya
In September 2011, Hilal Primary School at the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya was a few tents without walls, scattered across open fields. Children crowded under roofs that sheltered them from the scorching sun as th...
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Kenya’s terrorism bill faces rejection
Kenya’s terrorism bill, due to be brought to parliament for debate this week, faces rejection as Muslim leaders and legal experts call for changes to some clauses that they say infringe on their constitutional rights.
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Christian’s 6-Year sentence upheld in Egypt
A judge in Upper Egypt has upheld a six-year prison sentence for a Coptic Christian wrongly convicted of “blasphemy” against Islam and inciting sectarian strife, his lawyer said.
Kidnapped Swiss Christian freed amid Mali’s unrest
Separatist Islamist rebels released a Swiss Christian woman kidnapped by a private militia on April 15 amid political turmoil in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a Swiss foreign ministry statement.