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1.	Kenya: Terrorist sect receives rare backing by Church leaders
	Author: CISA No. 050 , Nairobi	Date Written: 9 May 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
	Secondary Category: Kenya	Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
	Key Words: Kenya, Nairobi, joint statement, national problem, slums
	Summary & Comment: The sad post-election events in Kenya seem to have had unexpected good results in motivating Churches to initiate rare gestures of common agreement. Proof is the joint statement signed by Catholic and Anglican Bishops together with Presbyterian leaders in which they ask the government to sit down for talks with Mungiki, a banned, dreaded, tribal s . . . [expand]
2.	Christian and Muslim leaders meet in Nigeria to rein in conflicts
	Author: Obed Minchakpu, Maiduguri, Nigeria	Date Written: 6 May 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Ecumenical News International ENI-08-0361
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.eni.ch/rss/
	Key Words: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Christians, Muslims, interfaith, relationships
	Summary & Comment: Nine years ago an interfaith body was established in Nigeria to counter the inter-religious conflicts that had engulfed the country. Intended as a platform where religious leaders could meet to discuss common problems confronting Nigerian Christians and Muslims, the meeting is now held in the north where Muslims predominate. Christian and Muslim le . . . [expand]
3.	Mali: New family law faces opposition from Muslim organisations
	Author: IRIN, Bamako	Date Written: 2 May 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org:80/
	Key Words: Mali, Bamako, family law code, marriage laws, compromise
	Summary & Comment: A new family law code awaiting adoption by the Mali Parliament faces opposition from some Islamic groups who claim it goes against Islamic principles in its proposed changes to the country’s marriage laws. "People have to change their behaviour, and they have to accept change. If Mali wants to be a fully-functioning democracy, it is important . . . [expand]
4.	Church grows despite restrictions in predominantly Islamic Sudan
	Author: Leanne Larmondin, Rumbek, Sudan	Date Written: 2 May 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: ENI-08-0355
	Secondary Category: Sudan	Source URL: http://www.eni.ch/rss/
	Key Words: Sudan, Rumbek, Dinka, Anglican, Catholic, restrictions
	Summary & Comment: This story appeared in the May edition of The Anglican Journal, a publication of the Anglican Church in Canada. The editor was in Sudan in March and April as part of the WCC-AACC delegation on behalf of several North American denominational news organizations that included the Presbyterian News Service, Disciples World magazine, and the United Chur . . . [expand]
5.	Kenya: Anglican, Catholic leaders want more than talk on displaced
	Author: Fredrick Nzwili, Nairobi	Date Written: 30 April 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Ecumenical News International, ENI-08-0348
	Secondary Category: Kenya	Source URL:
	Key Words: Kenya, Anglican, Catholic, IDPs, resettlement,
	Summary & Comment: Anglican and Catholic church leaders in Kenya have not always pulled together on issues. They did not work together on the review of the Constitution or during the past election campaign. However, they are now united in urging Kenyans to enable all those internally displaced following the election to quickly resume normal lives in their homes. They . . . [expand]
6.	Zambia: The evolution of settler-communities in relationship to global Islam
	Author: Félix Phiri, ENCOUNTER No 332, May 2008	Date Written: 26 April 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Pontificio Instituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: Zambia, Malawi, immigrants, Islam, Settler-Communities, origin,
	Summary & Comment: In a previous posting on April 2, 08, in an article entitled: The spread of Islam in Zambia (No17588), the author pointed out some of the major factors underpinning the current development of Islam in Zambia. In this article he studies the relationship between local and global Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and comes to the conclusion that in the day- . . . [expand]
7.	Church expects Zimbabwean exodus
	Author: John Newton and Mario Bard	Date Written: 17 April 2008
	Primary Category: Interfaith Relations	Document Origin: Aid to the Church in Need, Canada
	Secondary Category: Zimbabwe	Source URL: http://www.acn-aed-ca.org
	Key Words: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Relief Services, refugees, civil war
	Summary & Comment: The Catholic Church in South Africa is bracing itself for a possible refugee crisis as neighbouring Zimbabwe threatens to erupt into fierce violence in the midst of political uncertainty. This is an opportunity for Inter Faith work - when all charities will work together without discrimination in anticipation of tragedies like the one presently enf . . . [expand]