The African Church, arguably Nigeria’s oldest indigenous church, was a child of rebellion. It was birthed in protest and grew in discord and became firmly rooted in crisis and unfortunately, 124 years ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading Nigerian prelate has said that Africans see Catholicism in the West as a “Church in decline,” while in Africa Christianity is flourishing because of a strong Biblical ...

They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...

The death of the first bishop of Rome to rise from Latin America, Pope Francis, brings into sharp relief the possibility that the next pontiff selected at the imminent conclave could hail from the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Little more than a century ago, legions of Christian missionaries arrived here from Europe with an imposing agenda for changing traditional African practices. Worshiping animistic ...