Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Pope Benedict XVI has appealed to the Cabinda clergy of northern Angola to bring the faithful into making peace there in order to put an end to the current crisis facing the local diocese, Papal Nuncio Angelo Beccio has said in Luanda. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Tension is brewing between the Muslim community and a Christian radio station in the Kenyan town of Eldoret, 300km north- west of here, over a programme being broadcast by the station the Muslims term "offensive" to their faith. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- The head of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), the Most Rev. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- US tele-evangelist, Bishop T. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- An Italian priest Angelo Radelli was lynched by an angry mob Monday after he had killed a girl with his car in a village in northern Congo Brazzaville, a government official, Alain Akouala, said. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Michel A Blume to be his representative in Benin and Togo instead of Mgr Pierre Nguyên Van Tot, sources close to the Church said here Saturday. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Hearings to confirm a liberal British vicar as bishop of an Anglican diocese in Malawi, were suspended indefinitely here Saturday following controversy over his alleged gay connections, a senior Anglican cleric said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya, (PANA) -- The Catholic Church in Kenya has exhumed the body of Cardinal Maurice Otunga for reburial at a mausoleum in a Nairobi suburb as part of rituals ahead of his probable canonisation, church sources said here Tuesday. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Several Cameroonian pilgrims who wanted to attend the 20th World Day of Youth (WDY) taking place in Cologne, Germany, from 16 to 21 August have been denied entry visa into the European country. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Armed robbers Monday attacked St. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- A Libyan building company, Africa Project, and the coordination department of the Post-Kano Programme of Action, on Wednesday in Tripoli signed a contract to build the Kadhafi Centre for Islamic Radiance in Kano in Northern Nigeria. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan police are investigating the killing by gunmen of Italian Roman Catholic Bishop Luigi Locati, in Kenya's northern town of Isiolo, near the area where more than 80 people were murdered in tribal clashes this week, the local press reported Friday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Niger on Thursday set an Islamic Council (CIN), a supreme consultation body for all religious affairs, official sources said here. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's Education Ministry has condemned the distribution of religious propaganda in public schools in the country, saying it is against the national constitution. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Thirteen suspected Muslim fundamentalists, including Imams, appeared before a Nouakchott court Tuesday charged with "criminal association" and were later remanded in custody. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Another group of 15 suspected members of a Muslim fundamentalist movement in Mauritania was taken to Nouakchott central prison at the weekend, judicial sources here said. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Jewish pilgrims have commended Tunisia for inviting the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the World Summit on the Information Society in October 2005 in the North African nation, media reports said here Sunday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Gambian authorities plan to extradite two Mauritanian alleged Islamists, informed sources said here Saturday. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- Senior Catholics at "our Lady Star of the Sea" Juba Parish in Sierra Leone are planning a meeting to discuss a blasphemous statement purportedly made by Vice-President Solomon Berewa against the Christian faith. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- One year after some 900 people were massacred in clashes between Muslims and Christians in northern and central Nigeria, Human Rights Watch (HRW), said Wednesday the Abuja government had failed to prosecute those responsible for the cycle of violence. Full text...

Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- A group of Catholics led by Philip Labor has urged the head of Catholic Church in Sierra Leone, Archbishop Joseph Gander, to ex-communicate Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa for his recent campaign statements considered to be "blasphemous. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Ahead of the 2006 general electrons, the Catholic Church in north-western Uganda has banned politicians from campaigning during service. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- People suspected to be members of the Catholic Church recently threw stones at the visiting Papal Nuncio in Angola, Mgr. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Legislators in northern Nigerian Kano state have passed a law banning men and women from sitting together in commercial vehicles in the state, as stipulated under the Islamic Sharia law, the private Guardian newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) has invited Pope Benedict XVI to visit DR Congo. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Taya has advocated for a dialogue between civilisations in a bid to check the culture of violence. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- King Mohamed VI of Morocco is ready to work with newly-elected Pope Benedict XVI in ensuring global equality, justice and peaceful coexistence of all peoples, mainly in the Middle East, regardless of their belief and culture. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal on Tuesday congratulated the new Pope of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, who was elected the same day and chose the name Benedict XVI. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan Catholics on Tuesday celebrated the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as the new Pope, saying this marked the onset of a new phase of ultra- conservatism in the church. Full text...

Paris- France (France) -- Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria, the prefect of the Divine Worship Congregation, is among names being mentioned by Vatican observers to be possible successors to Pope John Paul II, who passed away Saturday at the age of 84 after a protracted illness. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritians and different religious leaders in the Indian Ocean Island nation on Sunday expressed sorrow over the death of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on Saturday night. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Like the rest of Christendom, the Roman Catholic Church in Uganda has continued to express concern over the deterioration in the health of Pope John Paul II, with clerics saying the Church was now in a "very trying moment. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- President Omar Bongo Ondimba, who is also Caliph-General of the Muslim community in Gabon has confirmed his son, Ali Bongo Ondimba as chair of Gabon's Higher Islamic Affairs Council (CSAIG). Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- African and European politicians, scientists and religious leaders will attend an international symposium on intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in Dakar from 22-24 March, says a news release issued in the Senegalese capital Thursday. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea Bissau (PANA) -- The government of Guinea-Bissau has banned the Ahmadia sect, charging that it has been "a threat to peace and stability" since being authorised in the country last January. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- President Levy Mwanawasa on Sunday went down into history as the first sitting president in Southern Africa to undergo the rituals of baptism as he switched allegiance from one Christian denomination to the other. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- The Secretary General of the Mauritanian Ulemas Association, Hamden Ould Tah, has pleaded for an "open and tolerant" Islam in Mauritania, saying hospitality and respect for "others' beliefs" were totally guaranteed in the country. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Mounds of garbage have become history in Mbeya town, southern Tanzania thanks to an initiative by Reverend Dr Nicku Kyungu Mordi, who is president and executive director of Africa for Jesus (AFJ), a prayer movement formed in Washington DC 12 years ago. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- The Episcopal Church in Liberia has condemned the ordination of gay priests, saying "the church does not accept the practice of homosexuality, neither will the Diocese endorse same sex marriage. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana, apparently embarrassed by an annual ritual of a messy organisation of the Muslim Hajj, said the government has initiated a process to set up a permanent Hajj Board to end the hardships for good. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerians are observing Thursday and Friday as public holidays, declared by the federal government to enable Muslim faithfuls to celebrate the Eid-el-Kabir festival. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The Beninese Muslim community will Thursday celebrate the Aid-el-Kabir holiday known as Tabaski to commemorate Abraham's sacrifice of his son after he was ordered to do so by God, official sources revealed. Full text...

Douala- Cameroon (PANA) -- Some 300 stranded pilgrims from Cameroon and neighbouring African countries finally left Douala Thursday aboard Cameroon's national carrier, CAMAIR flight to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for this year's Hajj. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Some 2,000 Mauritanian Muslims are to perform this year's pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, officials said Tuesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The first batch of 360 Ivorian pilgrims left Abidjan Sunday on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after the cancellation of their Christmas flights, officials said Monday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- There are growing fears that some 1,500 Ivorians billed for pilgrimage to Mecca will not make the trip after the cancellation of the first three flights to Saudi Arabia. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A total of 2,050 Mauritian Muslims will travel to Mecca for this year's pilgrimage, an official source confirmed here Tuesday morning. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The 7th conference of the World Islamic Call Society (WICS) has denounced repeated "tactics" linking Islam to terrorism, saying this was "a grave offence" against the 1. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- An upper Sharia court in Dass, near Nigeria's northern city of Bauchi, Wednesday overturned a death-by-stoning sentence passed on a pregnant teenage woman for adultery, setting off jubilation by the woman, her counsel and her supporters. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco and Guinea have signed a memorandum of understanding here to foster cooperation in religious affairs between the two countries. Full text...