North Africa once produced Catholic popes who shaped Church traditions, including Easter Sunday and St Valentine’s Day. Will ...

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

Forty-five years after the outbreak of the Berber Spring of 1980 and the savage and inhumane repression that followed, as ...

"North Africa was the Bible Belt of ancient Christianity," says Prof Christopher Bellitto, a historian at Kean University in the US. Many Catholics in Africa are hoping that that the papacy will ...

"North Africa was the Bible Belt of ancient Christianity ... eventually becoming the Empire's official religion. Before this, the persecution of Christians had been widespread at different ...