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You’d be surprised by how many of your favourite hits are about God or Jesus in one way or another.
Pastors pray for former South African president and ANC leader Jacob Zuma.
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Perhaps the combination of religious rhetoric and secular laws is a winning electoral strategy.
A Catholic Ash Wednesday service at St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India, in 2022.
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A roundup of The Conversation’s articles about this holy Christian season and its history.
Stormzy performs during the 56th Montreux Jazz Festival.
Gabriel Monnet
Stormzy’s new album contains some deeply personal reflections on faith.
Pope Francis presides over a special prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on March 25, 2022, before heading out to Malta for a two-day visit.
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Malta’s St. George Preca was canonized in 2007. Pope Francis’ visit to Malta renewed attention on Preca’s life and work and how it could provide guidance for the welfare of refugees.
A group of colleagues taking up the viral #JerusalemaDanceChallenge in Cape Town.
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Like Pata-Pata, Homeless and Mbube, the song Jerusalema is elevated by a historical moment in time and has the power to cross over to different audiences.
Angolan dance troupe Fenómenos do Semba.
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During the coronavirus pandemic the Jerusalema dance challenge enacted a way for communities to connect - repetitive enough to be picked up and varied enough to tease.
The 17th-century plague in Rome.
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The 17th-century plague of Italy has lessons for today: Back then, too, people broke public health laws, but there were clergymen who intervened.
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March on Washington in 1963.
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A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral and ethical vision.
What might have motivated the young missionary killed on a remote island in India?
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In their zeal to evangelize the world, at the end of 19th century, young families were sent overseas with little to no training in anything beyond the Bible and no promise of funding.
It’s big, but it might not feed 5,000.
Greggs
A sausage roll standing in for the Christ Child? It’s not as weird as you might think.
Country superstar Dolly Parton has a huge following across Africa.
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Africa’s broadcasters have a large role to play to ensure that country and western grows to its full potential on the continent.
Churches in the global South, especially Africa are growing.
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The particular brand of masculinity promoted by Africa’s influential male church leaders tends to devalue women, re-inscribe male domination.