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1.	Nigerian archbishop encourages inter-religious solutions to violence
	Author: WCC staff	Date Written: 26 January 2012
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: World Council of Churches
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.oikoumene.org/
	Key Words: Nigeria, Muslim community, Christian community, violence, religious lines
	Summary & Comment: Since 1999 the Nigeria Inter-religious Council has worked to calm the passions arising from murders and the burning of churches and mosques. Leaders of Nigeria’s Muslim and Christian communities have recently come together to condemn violence fomented by Boko Haram and an Archbishop has appealed to Christian and Muslim leaders worldwide to act toge . . . [expand]
2.	Nigeria: Religious tolerance in the country
	Author: 1. Margee Ensign | 2. Zakariyya Adaramola	Date Written: 23 January 2012
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: 1. The Moment (London) || 2. Daily Trust
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://allafrica.com/
	Key Words: Nigeria, tolerance, Boko Haram, deaths in churches, in mosques
	Summary & Comment: The Nigeria conflict is not a conflict between Muslims and Christians, says the author. He tells how Christians and Muslims are coming together to protect each other, and develop their communities. Both communities across Nigeria have resolved to be their brother’s keeper during religious congregations in the future and they have created what is ca . . . [expand]
3.	PROCMURA religious leaders for peace and development meeting
	Author: Rev. Dr. Johnson Mbillah	Date Written: 18 January 2012
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: PROCMURA, Nairobi
	Secondary Category: Africa General	Source URL: http://n/a
	Key Words: Addis Ababa, Christian and Muslim, religious leaders, peace and development
	Summary & Comment: Christian and Muslim Religious Leaders from 8 African Countries met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between 8th – 13th January under the auspices of the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA). The theme of the meeting was “Africa Christian and Muslim Religious Leaders for Peace and Development”. Find the report below.
4.	Nigeria : Christians and Muslims avoid fueling conflict raised by Boko Haram
	Author: Emma Amaize, Warri | Peter Okutu, Abakaliki | Jimitota Onoyume, Port Harcourt	Date Written: 10 January 2012
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Vanguard
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://allafrica.com/
	Key Words: Nigeria, Boko Haram, Rivers State, Delta State, Southerners, relocate
	Summary & Comment: Find here three Vanguard stories that show the complexity of the present situation in Nigeria. They clearly show that the feud does not pit Muslims as a group against Christians. The attacks are perpetrated by a terrorist Muslim sect without support of the Muslim community at large. They put the Muslims in the South in the same danger as Christians . . . [expand]
5.	A threat to democracy in Nigeria
	Author: 1. Mustapha Muhammad | 2. Fr. James Ngahy, M. Afr,	Date Written: 2 January 2012
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: 1. IPS | 2. Author
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Nigeria, Abuja, Jos, Damaturu, Muslims, Christians, Boko Haram
	Summary & Comment: The recent bombings in Nigeria sparked fears of reprisal attacks, and the government and religious bodies are intervening in an attempt to calm the tension. Both Muslims and Christian leaders declared that all lives must be respected and protected by all. In a meeting with the President, Christian leaders warned that if the federal government did n . . . [expand]
6.	South Africa:Theological and ethical reflections on the 2012 centenary celebrations of the ANC
	Author: Various	Date Written: 18 December 2011
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: KAIROS Southern Africa 28 December 2011
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://kairossouthernafrica.wordpress.com/
	Key Words: South Africa, KAIROS, ANC, centenary, prophets
	Summary & Comment: This timely document is in the tradition of the KAIROS document of 1985, and has many of the same signatories. It reviews the history of the ANC, and of the churches contribution to the ANC over the years. It urges the ANC above all to give priority to empowering the poor, who have not benefited sufficiently so far from democracy. JK
7.	Africa: The Pope on the dangers of continent’s witchcraft menace
	Author: Kofi Akosah-Sarpong	Date Written: 9 December 2011
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Public Agenda (Accra),
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://allafrica.com/
	Key Words: Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, witchcraft. inhuman ordeal, fear
	Summary & Comment: The troubling African witchcraft menace is at the centre of the African human stories. Witchcraft beliefs are so dominant that they decide the African’s fortune. In poor African families or those affected by life’s tragedies, often witchcraft culprits are hunted out in those who are weakest, who are then tortured or killed or cast away. In this Afr . . . [expand]