The pope’s tour through Africa last month cemented the continent as key to Catholicism’s future — but it is not even the ...

Introduction : African traditions in the study of religion in Africa / Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame, Bolaji Bateye -- ch. 1. African religions in African scholarship : a critique / Umar Habila Dadem ...

Democracy came to the cradle of Voodoo religion in 1991, when Benin’s military dictator of many years surprisingly lost an ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A Cameroonian priest and intellectual has published a ground-breaking book that could potentially change the way African Traditional Religion is perceived by the Catholic Church.

An alliance between Christian, Muslim, and even traditional religious institutions has formed under the secular banner of ...

For a century, more than 519 sacred objects from the Umbanda and Candomblé—two religions with African origins—were in the possession of Brazil police. This possession and the fight to return these ...

Pentecostal Christianity has emerged as one of the fastest-growing religious movements across sub-Saharan Africa, reshaping the continent’s spiritual landscape and its intersections with social, ...

Visits the Zulu Independent Churches of South Africa to explore the black African response to Christianity. Traces the history of religious beliefs in Africa, from the arrival of the first Christian ...

Researchers say they’ve found the most religious place on Earth. It’s between the southern border of the Sahara Desert and the tip of South Africa. Religion is “very important” to more than ...

The Catholic Church's conclave to select the next pope will begin May 7, with some wondering if the church will continue down the path of non-European pontiffs by electing an African pope. This ...