South Africa Church

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  Opinion | Is The Vatican Ready For A Black Pope?

  Many Catholics in Africa are asking whether the next Pope will be from their continent. This, increasingly, seems likely. Names like Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana or Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of South Africa have featured in papal speculation for yea

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  India Awaits Chadrayaan-3's Moon Landing Days After Russia’s Luna-25 Crash

  India will make its second attempt to land on the moon on Wednesday, a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and the country's standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed. In 2019, ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission successfully deployed an orbiter but its lander crashed.

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  13 Killed, 16 Injured As Church Wall Collapses After Heavy Rain In South Africa

  Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when part of a church collapsed on worshippers following a violent storm near the eastern South African city of Durban, officials said Friday.

• South Africa's First Gay-Friendly Mosque Could Be Shut

  South Africa's first gay-friendly mosque, which also allows Christian worshippers and women to lead prayers, could be closed unless it complies with municipal laws, an official said on Wednesday.

• Survivor of Nigeria Church Collapse Tells of Days in Darkness

  Lying in the rubble of the guesthouse, only able to tell if it was night or day through a tiny crack, Lindiwe Ndwandwe heard the screams of others beneath the debris slowly turn silent.

• South Africa Says Unknown Number of Its Citizens Unaccounted For After Nigeria Church Collapse

  Around 300 South Africans were visiting a Pentetcostal church in Nigeria last week where a wing collapsed killing more than 60 people and an unknown number were still unaccounted for, the government said.

• Zulu church embraces faux fur to protect leopards

  Carrying Zulu warrior shields and draped in leopard skins, the men of South Africa's Shembe Church move hypnotically as they go through the steps of a traditional religious ritual.

• Nelson Mandela marks two months in hospital, South Africans offer prayers

  South African church leaders today led prayers in front of the hospital where critically ill former South African president Nelson Mandela is soon to mark two months in care.

• South Africa's anti-apartheid church remembers, thanks Nelson Mandela

  Worshippers in a Soweto church which is a symbol of the resistance against apartheid on Sunday remembered Nelson Mandela, South Africa's ailing icon who was in hospital for a second day.

• South Africans pray for ailing Nelson Mandela

  South Africans said prayers during Easter Sunday church services for ailing Nelson Mandela who was spending his fourth day in hospital being treated for recurring pneumonia.

• South Africa cardinal says paedophilia not a crime

  A South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis this week has told the BBC paedophilia is an illness and not a crime.