World Health Organization
Meet the sex educators challenging what we think we know about sex and Islam
By Fiona André — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — These sex educators play a crucial role as they help fill a growing need in their community. When it comes to sexual health, Muslim women are significantly underserved but are heavily affected by sexual dysfunction.
Russian lawmakers move to further restrict transgender rights in new legislation
By Dasha Litvinova — July 14, 2023
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — There is little doubt that the bill, a crippling blow to Russia's oppressed LGBTQ+ community, will be adopted amid the Kremlin's crusade to protect what it views as the country's “traditional values.”
After a decade of sex abuse education in Africa, Freely in Hope pivots to American churches
By Fiona André — June 22, 2023
(RNS) — The organization’s shift to North America was prompted by numerous recent sexual abuse scandals in American churches.
Azza Karam resigns as secretary general of Religions for Peace
By Adelle M. Banks — June 21, 2023
(RNS) — She was elected secretary general at the 10th World Assembly of the global coalition in Lindau, Germany, in 2019, marking the first time a woman and a Muslim was chosen to lead the organization that was founded in 1970.
As monkeypox spreads, global organizations mobilize faith networks to fight stigma
By Adelle M. Banks — July 20, 2022
(RNS) — ‘There is no shame in having any disease’ is the mantra of Religions for Peace after dealing with past health crises, says its secretary-general.
India’s executions won’t end a pandemic of violence against women
By Satpal Singh — March 25, 2020
(RNS) — A gruesome chapter in Indian life closed with the executions of four of the six perpetrators of a horrifying gang-rape of a woman in 2012, but it may only help obscure the real dimensions of violence against women.
In central Africa, Islamist militias complicate church efforts to battle Ebola
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 22, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Intent on disrupting efforts to stop the spread of the disease and on delegitimizing local authorities, militants have attacked Christian pastors and health workers.
Kenyan clergy joins battle against deadly homemade brews
By Fredrick Nzwili — August 12, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The homemade alcoholic drinks, popularly dubbed chang'aa ("kill me quick") or Kumi Kumi (ten-ten shillings), are popular with the poor, who cannot afford commercially brewed bottled beer, which is heavily taxed.
African church leaders worry about the ‘medicalization’ of female genital mutilation
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 9, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Doctors, nurses and other health practitioners are secretly performing the procedures at the request of families.
To battle Ebola, churches and mosques fight superstition, alter rituals
By Fredrick Nzwili — August 22, 2014
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Traditional healers or herbalists outnumber biomedical workers in rural areas of Africa. These healers use ritual and herbal remedies to treat Ebola in areas where suspicion of modern medicine persists.
Is Ebola a curse from God? Some African Christian leaders think so
By Fredrick Nzwili — August 11, 2014
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) In Liberia, more than 100 Christian leaders meeting in early August declared that God was angry and Ebola a plague. They called for prayers to seek God’s forgiveness.
Doctor from Samaritan’s Purse catches lethal Ebola virus
By Larry Copeland — July 28, 2014
(RNS) The Ebola epidemic in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea has caused more than 670 deaths and more than 1,000 infections, according to the World Health Organization.
Polio resurfacing in Muslim-majority countries
By Imran Ali Teepu — December 3, 2013
(RNS) The problem is prompting some polio-free countries to demand that visitors from high-risk countries take oral vaccines at the airport upon arrival.
Unsafe abortions on the rise across Africa
By Fredrick Nzwili — September 4, 2013
(RNS) More than 6 million unsafe abortions take place each year in Africa, resulting in 29,000 maternal deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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