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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Interfaith Relations category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more Interfaith Relations articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive.

Interfaith Relations is edited by Fr. Bernard Tremblay, M. Afr., from Montreal. Fr. Bernard spent 24 years as a missionary in Zambia. A member of the National Liaison Committee for Christian-Muslim Dialogue, he is primarily interested in Islamo-Christian dialogue, but he is also on the look out for articles dealing with traditional religion.

Interfaith Relations contains articles on dialogue between Christians and Muslims, as well as those dealing with ecumenical relations and indigenous beliefs/practises in relation to Christianity in Africa. The title, Interfaith Relations, points to an imposing array of topics; however, its overall, primary concern will remain interfaith dialogue.

Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

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. Longer, analytical article. 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. Longer, analytical article. 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]

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