Kenya church attack: Two more die

Four people are killed and a number are injured when gunmen open fire in a church near the Kenyan city of Mombasa, officials say.

A court in Egypt sentences 69 Islamists to life in prison for looting and setting fire to a church in a town near Cairo in August 2013.

Two UN peacekeepers are killed and seven injured in a suicide attack on a UN patrol base in northern Mali.

A soldier in Somalia avenges the killing of his wife - also a soldier - by shooting dead five women related to militant Islamists, an official says.

Thirty people are reportedly killed and several hurt in northern Nigeria, in an attack blamed by police on gunmen from the Fulani community.

Two elderly Italian nuns are killed at their convent in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, confirm Italian Church officials.

Homophobia in Africa has increasingly been spread through use of religion with most spiritual heads assenting that the higher powers known to mankind are against homosexuality or any other sexual nonconformity that isn’t in line with the norm.

However, The Community Church of St Sebastian in the Spanish Canary Islands that is known to openly reach out to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community could be on its way to changing such beliefs after it was revealed...

Kenya's government dismisses allegations made by the country's Catholic Church that a tetanus vaccine can cause sterility in women.

More than 60 people are reported to have died with dozens blinded in Kenya after consuming homemade, contaminated alcohol.