In his new documentary Machanic Manyeruke: The Life of Zimbabwe’s Gospel Music Legend, filmmaker James Ault reminds us of the effervescent worship culture that thrives across Christian Africa. So much ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading African archbishop has said that an historical tendency to regard Christianity as the “white man’s God,” and the current rise of a “prosperity Gospel” conflating ...

How the Great Migration changed music in the black church forever. In the 1920s, Chicago’s first African American congregations were at a crossroads. After decades of investment, the churches and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Every Wednesday night, the St. Thomas Gospel Choir lifts their voices in song. They meet each week for rehearsals at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in the Overbrook ...

Paula Holloway belts out a song during a dress rehearsal of "The Gospel at Colonus." (Aaron Lucas) Oedipus, the tragic Greek character who unwittingly murdered his father and married his mother, is ...

Here are three remarkable figures whose faith, intellect and courage helped shape Christianity as we know it today.

When participants gather in Rome at this fall’s Synod on Synodality to reflect how the global Catholic Church can better communicate the saving love of Jesus for all humanity, a vast continental ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Catholics can learn from the rise of Pentecostal Christian groups in Africa, according to one Nigerian bishop. In 1970, Pentecostals represented just 5 percent of all Africans, but ...

Conrad Mbewe, a Zambian pastor, asks them in his book. But there are others worth considering. As an ordained minister in the Church of Uganda (a local church within the Anglican tradition), and ...

The year 2010 was a golden one for Rose Muhando, once a chart-topping Tanzanian gospel powerhouse whose songs would make even non-believers rise to their feet in praise. There was something infectious ...