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Djerba - Security concerns and threats from some Salafi Islamists kept thousands of Jewish pilgrims away from an annual celebration on the Tunisian island of Djerba this week. No more than 500 pilgrims attended the religious festival celebrated a month after Passover at one of Africa's oldest synagogues on Wednesday and Thursday - an event that used to attract thousands
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Nearly 1,500 Jews are expected on Thursday at Tunisia's Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa, reviving a pilgrimage scaled back last year amid security fears, organisers said Monday. Some 200 pilgrims from France and Italy had already arrived on the tourist island 500 kilometres (310 miles) south of Tunis and 300 others were expected on Thursday, chief organiser Rene Trabelsi
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Yarmulkes bob as voices swell in a sacred song carried from ancient Judea to the scenic fields of a far-flung southern African village that is home to a "lost tribe" of Israel. "We have been singing this song for about 2,600 years. It's an old, old song," said Perez Hamandishe, wearing a white crocheted skullcup with a blue Star of
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Dakar - Authorities say they have arrested a powerful religious leader in Senegal and 11 of his followers after two people were beaten to death. Cheikh Bethio Thioune's arrest late on Monday comes amid criticism after he married a seventh wife, three more than is allowed under Islam. Thies Prosecutor Ibrahima Ndoye told journalists that Thioune was personally implicated in
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Tunisia's Religious Affairs Minister Nourredine al-Khademi on Saturday said the country will take stock of the hundreds of mosques now in the hands of Salafist extremists. "This is a priority area for my administration," said the minister, who estimated that about 400 of Tunisia's more than 5,000 mosques had fallen under the sway of ultra-conservative Salafists. "Serious problems concern about
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Boston - An East African gay advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against a Massachusetts evangelist, alleging he has waged a decade-long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. The suit was filed in federal court in Springfield against minister Scott Lively under a statute that Sexual Ministries Uganda says allows non-citizens to file US court actions for violations
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Algiers - Algeria signed a deal with a Chinese company on Tuesday for the construction of a vast new €1bn mosque in the capital that will be able to hold up to 120 000 worshippers. Religious Affairs Minister Bouabdallah Ghlamallah declared that the Grand Mosque which will overlook the seafront in the east of Algiers would be a "one-of-a-kind". "There
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Kano - The emir of Kano has led a prayer service asking for God to help end attacks by a radical Islamist sect across Nigeria's north. The ceremony by the senior Muslim religious official was held on Monday in the city of Kano, where more than 150 were killed in a series of co-ordinated attacks on Friday by Boko Haram.
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Bossaso — Islamic scholars in Puntland State of Somalia have held a conference in the commercial capital Bossaso, blaming Al Shabaab for spilling blood of many Somalis, Radio Garowe reports. Sheikh Abdiqadir Nur Farah prominent Somali Islamic scholar The Islamic scholars held the meeting in Al Rowda mosque in Bossaso where many hundreds gathered to hear Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah
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Enugu — The Islamic community in Enugu State has condemned the spate of bombings and killings of innocent people in various parts of the country, describing the incidents as uncivilized and unIslamic. The community in a letter addressed to Governor Sullivan Chime and signed by its Chairman, Alhaji Haruna Sule, also said the killings were "criminal, dastardly and a sin
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Kinshasa - Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday sounded the alarm over the political situation, saying it was like "a train going toward a wall" as the country awaits election results. Tensions have been running high following Monday's national polls, after President Joseph Kabila's main rival, veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, said he rejected the early
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Benin on Friday, marking his second visit to Africa in a heartland of voodoo and warning against "unconditional submission" to the laws of the market and finance. Hundreds of residents welcomed Benedict at the airport, including women wearing skirts with his picture, and crowds cried out to him as he traveled through the economic capital
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Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Benin on Friday, marking his second visit to Africa in a nation considered the heartland of voodoo and after his 2009 trip to the continent led to an outcry over condoms. He is expected to be welcomed by tens of thousands of Benin citizens as well as pilgrims from West Africa and beyond during the
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Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI brings a message of hope to Africa when he begins a three-day visit to Benin on Friday to meet Catholic leaders and pilgrims from across the continent. The highlight of the pope's second trip to a region that has the world's fastest growing number of Catholics will be the formal signing on Saturday of
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A man of God has predicted that the world will be destroyed tomorrow, Friday, November 11, 2011. He did not give the time and how it would happen. Peter Anamoh, who described himself as a “prophet to the nations”, claimed the destruction would commence from the sea in Ghana and would then proceed to the rest of the world. He
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Kurmuk — The Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir offered prayers in the city of Kurmuk on the occasion of Eid Al Adha on Sunday, as promised earlier. The Sudanese armed forces recently gained control of Kurmuk, a city in Blue Nile state bordering with Ethiopia, after a battle with the opposition Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). Sudanese armed forces and
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Zanzibar — The increase in the use of illicit drugs among the youth is ruining essential manpower in the isles, President Ali Mohamed Shein said yesterday at an Idd al-Adha baraza held in Pemba. Noting that statistics on drug addicts and child abuse on the Isles were frustrating, he called for concerted efforts to end the scourges. "Let us not
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On the occasion of the blessed Eid Al Adha, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, addressed the following message to the Muslim Ummah: "On the auspicious occasion of the blessed Eid Al Adha 1432H, I have the pleasure to express my sincere congratulations to Muslims throughout the world. Eid Al Adha is an
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Abidjan - Ivory Coast's Catholic Church said on Tuesday it had suffered 30 different attacks against places of worship and other buildings over the past two months. "Since August 15, the Catholic Church has been targeted by 30 attacks, daytime and night-time attacks," church spokesperson Augustin Obrou told AFP. "As recently as yesterday, the homes of two nuns were burgled
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Leaders of churches representing tens of millions of South Africans on Tuesday accused the governing African National Congress of trying to co-opt and manipulate them, in a strongly worded statement reflecting two years of brewing tensions. "Motshekga, back off from the church!" was the warning sent in a joint statement to Mathole Motshekga, parliamentary chief whip of
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Christ the King Church was forced to refund Shs200,000 to Activists for Change (A4C) after police foiled a press briefing at which the group sought to launch the second phase of walk-to-work protest. "We refunded their money because police refused the meeting to take place and we have resolved as management that whenever they (A4C) want to hold political meetings,
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The pews are often virtually empty on Sunday mornings at Harare's St Mary's and All Saints Anglican cathedrals, but this is Bishop Nolbert Kunonga's "throne" and he is prepared to defend it with violence. After a service attended by a few followers last Sunday, Kunonga, the priest who has divided the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe and set disciples on rival
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President Omar al-Bashir says Sudan will go ahead with plans to adopt an entirely Islamic constitution. Bashir had already said that Sudan would adopt an Islamic constitution if the south seceded. But many southerners had hoped he would not go ahead. Bashir says that 98 per cent of the Sudanese population is Muslim, and that the new constitution should reflect
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The Dusseldorf branch of the Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries International in Germany has donated items worth GH ¢2,500 to the inmates of the Ashan Children's Home at Denase in the Afigya Kwabre district of the Ashanti Region. The items include four bags of rice, 10 gallons of cooking oil, a quantity of tinned tomatoes, a bale of second
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The Archbishop of Canterbury today preached a sermon to a packed sports stadium in Harare where over 15,000 Anglicans had gathered for a Eucharist, travelling from all over the country - from as far as Bulawayo and Gweru to Masvingo and Mutare. Here is the full text of the sermon: 'So the servants went out into the streets and gathered
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