Africa

KANO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Kano state government closed 24 Christian schools because of their refusal to provide Islamic religious studies as part of their curricula.

MIAMI, Fla. — Nigeria’s Justice Minister, Kanu Agabi, declared in a March 18 letter that the Islamic legal system now in operation in 12 northern

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Representatives of Sudan’s northern government declared that it is seeking a peaceful resolution to the decades-old civil war between the Muslim forces

In the basement of a house somewhere in North Africa, a group of American and native North African Christians gathered to work on a most

LAGOS, Nigeria — The leader of a Christian organization said  February 23 that Christians in northern Nigeria had become an “endangered species,” citing incessant killings,

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — Eleven church leaders were arrested February 16 following a series of prayer meetings in the Hillside suburb of Bulawayo, this southern African