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May 16, 2018
Local and Traditional Leadership
Nigerian Catholic and Tiv Leaders Respond to Violence in the Middle Belt
There is now more violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt than in the northeast, where Boko Haram continues its operations. Ostensibly, violence in the Middle Belt is driven by conflict between “herders” and “farmers” over land use, ethnic and religious rivalries, and (likely but hard to prove) the agendas of rival politicians.
September 25, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
More Nigerian Church Bombings
On Sunday, September 24, immediately after an early mass, a suicide bomber attacked St. John’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Bauchi. Five were reported killed with another forty-six injured. Doctors w…
August 16, 2016
Israel
The Lutheran Church Attacks Israel, Again
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, or ELCA, is a church in decline--but whose enthusiasm for attacks on Israel never wanes. The decline is very clear in the numbers. The ELCA when formed …
October 30, 2018
Religion
Russia, Ukraine, and the Orthodox Church
Cyril Hovorun, acting director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University, and Adrian Karatnycky, nonresident senior fellow in the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, discuss Russia, Ukraine, and the geopolitical implications of the current Orthodox Church crisis, as part of CFR’s Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.
January 28, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Catholics Suspend National Activity In the Christian Association of Nigeria
The Roman Catholic Church has suspended its participation in meetings at the national level of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). The Catholic bishops stated that “CAN is being dragged into …
