Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Thisday, one of Nigeria's leading newspapers, Thursday apologised to Muslims in the country for an offensive article carried by the paper at the weekend, which resulted in its offices in the northern city of Kaduna being razed by protesting Muslims Wednesday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian controversial Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, is due to visit home 5-9 December, the Vatican Embassy announced in Lusaka Tuesday. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Several hundreds of Reunion nationals have witnessed mysterious apparitions of the "Virgin of Reparation" during prayer services Tuesdays and Fridays in the west of the island. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkinabe Muslims entered Thursday the sacred fasting month of Ramadan against the backdrop of an economic gloom marked this year by the socio-political crisis raging in neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The holy month of Ramadan began in Libya Tuesday, with rains in November, a month, which Libyans associate with ploughing. Full text...

Conakry- Guinea (PANA) -- Guinean Muslims begin Ramadan fasting Thursday joining millions of other faithful worldwide in the observance of one of the five pillars of Islam. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The Muslim Community in Burundi has urged all the belligerents in the country's nine-year-old civil war to observe a truce on the eve of Ramadan (Month of Fasting). Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The popular Christian rock band, Delirious, is due in South Africa next week for a nation-wide tour. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane Monday morning addressed a gathering of 250 Anglican bishops from southern Africa on the need for a professional approach to their ministry and for a focus on challenges confronting the church. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's Roman Catholic Church has lodged a complaint with the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) over alleged slander by callers to a programme by the country's private "Radio Islam". Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Thousands of Mauritian pilgrims Monday thronged the grave of a Catholic priest, who until his death 140 years ago, had dedicated his life to serving the poor. Full text...

Sebha- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Kadhafi has called on Islamic Umma (clerics) to free Muslims from the Western "cage of suspicion. Full text...

Porto Novo- Benin (PANA) -- A Muslim businessman in Benin has contributed 50 million CFA francs (approximately 75,000 US dollars) to the construction of a Catholic Church of the Community of Saint Pierre and Saint Paul here. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- The head of the Coptic Church in Egypt, Pope Shenouda III, has called for Muslims and Christians of Arab descent living in the US to form a strong pressure group to influence America's policy in the Middle East, a State newspaper reported Saturday in Cairo. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A Muslim Council grouping various Mauritian Islamic organisations has been set up in Port Louis, with the purpose of strengthening unity among Muslims, according to the Council's chairman, Yacoob Ebrahim Dawood. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The Methodist Church of Nigeria has suspended one of its priests after a woman accused him of sexual harassment, local press reported Sunday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- National hajj (pilgrimage) organisations in 11 African countries have formed a federation to defend the interests of Muslim pilgrims, Mauritius Islamic Cultural Centre chairman Reshad Uteem announced here Friday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The saga of the Zambian prelate, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who married a South Korean woman a year ago, took a new twist Wednesday, with his home government saying it would not intervene in his case as the Vatican was looking after him well. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The saga of the Zambian prelate, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who married a South Korean woman a year ago, took a new twist Wednesday, with his home government saying it would not intervene in his case as the Vatican was looking after him well. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In line with the global trend against clerics who sexually abuse minors in their charge, the Catholic Church of Nigeria said it has suspended some of its priests who were found to have committed the offence. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Thousands of pilgrims left Nouakchott for Senegal early Wednesday to take part in the annual "Gamou" celebration organised in Tivaouane, some 90 km north-east of Dakar, to mark the anniversary of Prophet Mohammed's birth (Mawlid al-Nabi). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, has alerted the nation on plans by some Islamic personalities to attack Christians in the predominantly-Muslim north, with a view to wiping out Christianity from the area, local newspapers reported Sunday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Rabbi David Rosen, a world- renown leader in the field of interfaith relations and a former anti-apartheid activist, arrived in South Africa Friday for a 10-day visit as a guest of the Women's Zionist Organisation of South Africa. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Episcopal Conference of Angola and Sao Tome (CEAST) has welcomed the Angolan government's "benevolent language and gesture" to end the armed conflict in the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Nairobi criminal court was Monday forced to order a medical examination on a man who had claimed he is the Third Pope of the Roman Catholic Church before sentencing him. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Yehiel Leket, World Chairman of the Jewish National Fund, arrived in South Africa Friday as guest speaker at the 45th Conference of the South African Zionist Federation. Full text...

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Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Bishop Maurice Piat of Port Louis has prevailed on Christians in Mauritius to join members of other religions to intensify the struggle against poverty in the country. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- A delegation of eminent British Muslims will visit Morocco from 3 to 5 March, the British Embassy in Rabat disclosed Tuesday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian Muslims, along with their Christian compatriots, were observing Friday as a public holiday as the nation joined the rest of the world to celebrate the Eid-el-Kabir feast. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Sheep prices have risen in Yaounde markets after a train laden with the animals and bound for the Cameroonian capital derailed, ahead of the Muslim feast of Tabaski. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Three people were feared dead and several others injured when a stampede occurred Thursday during a religious crusade presided by German Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, in Nigeria's south-west city of Abeokuta, the local media reported Friday. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair Thursday said there is an urgency, more than ever before, for greater religious understanding in the wake of the 11 September terror attacks in the US. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The Malian High Islamic Council plans to hold its founding congress in Bamako next Monday under the patronage of President Alpha Omar Konare, the organisers said. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin will hold the eighth national voodoo festival in the country Thursday, sources from organising committee of the event said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Catholic priest Daniel Ngure, of a church in Kenya's Central province, has rejected 70,000 shillings (about 890 US dollars) in donation from a businessman who deals in liquor, saying the money has come from Satan and was "stained with alcohol. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Muslims are no longer permitted to travel on their own to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj (annual pilgrimage) in Saudi Arabia. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Several hundred Christians from a variety of churches Monday protested in Cape Town against the "inappropriate and disrespectful" use of God's name on television. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkinabe Muslims Sunday celebrated Aid El Fitr, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, under the sign of peace and forgiveness. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for understanding between Christians and Moslems in the country to ensure peace and unity, as Moslems celebrated Eid-el-Fitr Sunday to mark the end of Ramadan. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Saudi Prince Azize bin Fahd is to finance the building of one of the biggest Mosques in Mauritius, according to Labour and Industrial Relations Minister, Showkatally Soodhun. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A Christian Council was launched in Mauritius Sunday at the Mauritius Red Cross Memorial Hall in Curepipe, 25 km south of the capital, Port Louis. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- With a few days to the crusade by German Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, tension remains high in Nigeria's South-western town of Osogbo, where suspected Moslem fundamentalists opposed to the event killed one person and damaged at least eight Churches in a rampage last Wednesday. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- A Christian Council was launched in Mauritius Sunday with its leaders saying the council's objective is to achieve national unity and that of all Christians. Full text...

Port Louis- Maurice (PANA) -- Mauritian Hindu faithful Friday celebrated the "Ganga Asnan" religious feast honouring a goddess that shares the same name with an India River. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Tension was running high Thursday in Nigeria's south-west city of Osogbo, where some 300 suspected Moslem fanatics destroyed eight Churches Wednesday, ahead of next week's crusade by German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan population started observing Ramadan, the month of fasting, on Friday, while in other parts of the Moslem world Ramadan will start on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- As opposition mounts within and outside Nigeria to the death sentence passed by a Sharia Court on a woman who confessed to adultery, an Islamic scholar Mohammed Lawan has described the sentence as "misapplication of the Sharia law". Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- A Sharia Court in Funtua, in Nigeria's northern Katsina State, has sentenced a pregnant teenager to 100 strokes of the cane after she was found guilty of fornication. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Muslim leaders in Niger have asked the authorities to encourage premarital AIDS tests and to take strong measures for the observance of moral values. Full text...