NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The pontiff’s visit to Africa highlights the growing importance of the African church within global Catholicism and honors the roots of Western Christianity and Leo’s own order.
Born into a free Black family in the late 1700s, Jarena Lee was just 24 when she heard the call to ministry as a member of the newly-formed African Methodist Episcopal Church. Though founders banned ...
Opening the 13th General Assembly of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa (AEA), Bishop Dr. Goodwill Shana delivered a far-reaching and impassioned keynote address calling the African Church to ...
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 ...
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The African Pope Behind Easter That You Never Heard of
African-born Pope Victor I (c. 189–199 AD) pushed for Easter to be celebrated on Sundays and shaped early Christian practices ...
These African theologians are all in on the synod—and want to make it a permanent part of the church
Participants in the “Living Church: Theology of Synodality/Foundations of Synodality" meeting gather in Nairobi on June 21, 2024 (Photo courtesy of the African Synodality Initiative). “We need ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bishop John Wesley Yohanna of the United Methodist Church delivers a message to church members Dec. 10, 2023, at the church's ...
Deacon Willard Witherspoon distributes Communion during Mass at St. Peter Claver Church in Baltimore in this 2016 file photo. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As the world prepares ...
As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore last week and traveled — on foot — 43 miles (69 kilometers) to Washington. He arrived by evening on April ...
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridors’ North Carolina Summit is offering an immersive tour highlighting the history of Black churches in Brunswick and New Hanover counties.
The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology. Now, with the approach of its first major ...
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