Tanzanians wonder whether Nyerere saint or sinner
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In a world where politicians are usually cast as villains and sinners, Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere may yet turn out to be a saint.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.
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The genocide trial of a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest accused of ordering the massacre of thousands of his Tutsi parishioners during Rwanda&#39;s 1994 genocide opens in Arusha, Tanzania Monday.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - A Roman Catholic priest accused of ordering the slaughter of 2,000 people who sought refuge in his church during Rwanda's genocide insisted his slain parishioners were in his prayers Monday, as his lawyer dismissed the charges against his client as "rumours."
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Ugandan second coming wows the crowds Large crowds gathered yesterday around a mobile phone mast in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu after locals spotted Jesus Christ atop the structure, Kampala's The Monitor reports.â¦
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AFRICA/CONGO RD - Solenne Eucaristia per lÂinsediamento di Mons. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya Arcivescovo di Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- ÂKinshasa, alzati e risplendi della luce di CristoÂ. Con queste parole rivolte ai fedeli, Mons. Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, giÃ  Arcivescovo di Kisangani, ha preso possesso dellÂArcidiocesi di Kinshasa, capitale della Repubbli...
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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania -- The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called yesterday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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Former Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu does not mince his words. Known as a straight talker, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a thorn in the flesh of successive apartheid regimes in South Africa until the demise of white rule in 1994.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.
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As a stranger draws near,  priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises  an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the  demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia&#39;s holiest sites.
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As the year winds down and well-heeled Gautengers, Mpumalangans and Vrystaters trek south to that glorious part of our country called Plett for their perennial dipping-of-toes-into-ocean ritual, other Africans also have reasons to celebrate and enjoy life
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A bishop is entangled in a spiritual mystery after admitting he couldn't explain how he got a black eye after a drinks party -- while witnesses gave a colourful account of his night out.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - When scuffling sisters brought their family squabble into the Assemblies of Jesus Church, the preacher says the devil came, too. The Rev. Clarence June Love was just about to begin his Sunday service to a congregation of less than a dozen on Jan.
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For the past year, Yonas Tadesse has been trying to stave off the effects of HIV with a blend of science and faith &#151; he takes anti-retroviral medicine but also drinks a liter of holy water, blessed by a priest.
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Kepha Ngito is working to ease ethnic and religious tensions in Kibera, the Nairobi slum that is a potential flash point ahead of Thursday's presidential election.
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Venezuela's Maria Lionza religious cult offers an indigenous challenge to traditional Catholicism
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AFRICA/TANZANIA - Nomina del Rettore del Seminario teologico ÂSan Carlo LwangaÂ a Dar Es Salaam CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Card. Ivan Dias, Prefetto della Congregazione per lÂEvangelizzazione dei Popoli, in data 12 ottobre 2007, ha nominato Rettore del Seminario maggiore teologico ÂSan Carlo LwangaÂ a Dar Es Salaam, in Tanzania, il...