A man regarded as the first openly gay Muslim imam has been fatally shot while sitting in a car in South Africa in what many ...

The world's first openly gay imam in the Muslim faith was shot and killed in what local authorities say may be a hate crime.

In February 1965, the BBC reported from the funeral of the black nationalist leader in Harlem, New York, as thousands of people queued to pay their last respects.

Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world's first openly gay imam who was gunned down last weekend in South Africa, stood as a ...

Gris-gris are rooted in traditional African faiths that believe vital powers in animals and nature may be unlocked — to harm, ...

Ethiopia is often regarded as the oldest country in Africa, with a history that stretches back at least 160,000 years, if not ...

Despite their electorates being less religious, European states are more involved in religion than their counterparts in ...

There followed a frank discussion about the characteristics of Islamic culture that nurture and periodically revive Islamic radicalism and terrorism. For over a thousand years every few generations ...

South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...