The president of the Congolese Football Federation, Jean-Guy Blaise Mayolas, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty in a major corruption case that has shaken football ...

President Denis Sassou Nguesso, 82, is widely considered the favorite ...

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do. Global annual attendance totals many billions; the number of people killed in attacks on individual houses of ...

The attack struck a residential area of Goma, killing an employee of the U.N.’s children’s agency and two others amid a sharp ...

Democratic Republic of Congo launched its first state-backed gold refinery as it moves to formalize a trade historically linked to smuggling and conflict in the country’s mineral-rich east.

Notable attacks on houses of worship worldwide in past 15 years - The attack that occurred in Detroit is the latest in a series targeting religious buildings ...