Nationals from 10 African countries face the steepest barriers to entering the U.S. for business, study, tourism or residency, according to a new study by a Florida law firm specializing in immigration. Senegal, Burundi and Nigeria are at the top…
Pope Leo arrives in Africa with message of peace, unity amid global tensions
Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa comes at a moment of deep global tension, as wars, inequality and religious divisions intensify. Visiting countries marked by colonial history and modern conflict, the pope is expected to project a message of unity…
Project 2025 spreading around the world
The Trump administration is helping spread Project 2025 around the world in an attempt to replace human rights with Christian nationalism, according to a new report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Project 2025 is the anti-democratic and…
Pope Leo XIV’s African visit a journey to the margins — and the heart of Christianity
As Pope Leo XIV prepares to travel to Africa, its Catholic leaders are underlining the significance of the visit to the continent, where Christianity is on an upsurge.
Working where grass is trampled
There is an African proverb that states, “Where elephants fight, the grass is trampled.” Nowhere is this a truer metaphor than the effect of global politics on international development and, ultimately, the marginalized at the bottom. Imagine our surprise and…
Epiphany’s forgotten revelation: Africa as refuge for Christ
Epiphany is the season of revelation. It is the moment when light breaks into darkness, when God preserves what power tries to destroy. We rehearse the story every year: Magi from the East follow a star that leads them to…
African Christian leaders and health nonprofits seek to fill gaps after USAID cuts
The leaders from 10 countries on the continent called for more local funding to restore essential resources to fight malaria, HIV and tuberculosis.
Where USAID Funded Evangelical Ministry in Africa
In January, Elon Musk and others working for President Donald Trump’s administration swiftly dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the humanitarian arm of American foreign policy. Musk and other Republican officials criticized the roughly $35 billion agency…
PEPFAR and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity
We are so accustomed to seeing every public argument as a cage fight that it can be genuinely surprising to see a mind changing in the course of a conversation. On The Joe Rogan Experience last week, songwriter Bono laid out for Rogan…
US groups export their family values on abortion and LGBTQ rights to Africa
Christian and conservative groups that fight abortion and gay rights in the U.S. and Europe are intensifying their work across Africa through conferences, activism and promotion of a “Declaration on Family Values” that express grave concern about sex education, birth…
A Mission That Turned Into A Movement: The Spread Of Quakerism In Africa
Here’s a fun fact many may not know: Most of the world’s Quakers live in Africa.
Sing a new song: Reflections on Band Aid at 40
When it comes to Christmas music, I prefer mine sacred and sung by an English university choir. I haven’t really been “into” popular Christmas music or pop stars’ Christmas records (sacred or secular) since I was a kid — with…