South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Charles Gardner — UK Correspondent The exponential rise of anti-Jewish feeling in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war grows ever more alarming – until we recognise that God is at work. For the prophet Isaiah wrote that “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of […]
Ephesians 5: 16 — …redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” We are to live for the present, “right now”, in fact. I received a beautiful letter from dear friends in the USA, the heart of the letter was all about time. They said, knowing that the future has been […]
Q: I recently got married – and my new husband and I are feeling a little overwhelmed. Even in just a few short weeks, life together isn’t quite measuring up to what we anticipated. Is this normal? We both really want to make this relationship work. Graeme: Being a newlywed […]
By Open Doors The gender-specific religious persecution (GSRP) faced by Christian women and girls is consistently more complex and multifaceted than the persecution faced by men and boys. Violent forms of insecurity tend to see women and girls more vulnerable to sexual violence, whereas men and boys face a heightened […]
A fortnightly column in which Marzanne Slabbert explores the enigmatic fusion of faith and art in South Africa. Join her on an artistic journey and explore the many ways in which God is using the visual arts! I can still hear my grandfather say: “People are like sheep, we were […]
Gateway News UK Correspondent Charles Gardner celebrates the blessing of pro-Israel worship on the streets of Amsterdam, decades after the wartime persecution of the city’s Jewish residents remembered in a book by a Holocaust survivor While hate-filled demonstrators call for Israel’s destruction in London and elsewhere, the streets of Amsterdam […]
A column in which Simon Kumm unpacks the mysterious ways of God, to connect believers with their Father and His incredible living inheritance! The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the past year or so has been nothing short of startling. The advances in its ability and potential have evoked […]
Originally published in All Israel News Israel and Gaza have changed in many ways since the Hamas invasion of October 7 – but it also needs to be a “game changer” for the Church, the president of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (ICEJ), Jürgen Bühler, said on Thursday. Living through the […]
A monthly column in which Jenni Pretorius Hill shares stories of hope which bring Heaven’s perspective to Earth On my first flight from London to Beijing, I didn’t sleep at all. It was an overnight journey, but my insomnia was not surprising since my thoughts were consumed with the contraband […]
Q: What’s the relationship between fatherlessness and violent behaviour among adolescent boys? I’m wondering about this because statistics show that an increasing number of children are growing up in homes where no father is present. Graeme: As the CEO of a family-help organisation in South Africa I can testify that […]