Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Central-West Côte d’Ivoire is a lush agricultural landscape, stuffed with rich banana ...

One single thread links Umo Eno, the self-styled pastor governor of Akwa Ibom State; his predecessor, Emmanuel Udom and Felix Houphouet-Boigny. It is the religious bigotry and senselessness behind the ...

If it’s in the Dictator Handbook that you must leave behind an extravagantly unaffordable and unnecessary vanity project, then Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny has fulfilled that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not everyone goes to church to prayfor many travelers, houses of worship are windows into a destination's culture and history.

In the Ivory Coast’s small and remote capital city stands a church as tall as St Peter’s in Rome, with personal air-conditioning for every seat. It is a bewildering legacy of the country’s ‘founding ...

Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - 10 September 1990 - 10 September 2020, 30 years ago, the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro (in the center of the Country) was consecrated by Pope John ...

Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - "We will dedicate an entire year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the basilica", said on Sunday 15 September 2019 Fr. Franck Sylvestre Allatin, rector of The ...

Construction on the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church on earth, started 28 years ago in the small Ivory Coast city of Yamoussoukro. Planned by then-president Félix ...

There is notable architecture, there is odd architecture, and there is a church in the African city of Yamoussoukro that falls equally into both categories. This is the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, ...