South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in CBN News This may come as a surprise to many of our readers: Christianity is growing faster in Iran than in any other country in the world. The population there is overwhelmingly Muslim, yet tens of thousands are abandoning the faith. On a recent Friday afternoon, some […]
If only for one soul being saved, then all the prayers, sacrifices, time, work and preparation for the Karoo Mighty Men Conference would have been worthwhile — this has been a principle on which the KMMC organising committee has stood in its seven years of bringing the event to the […]
Compiled from reports in The Guardian and Christianity Today A growing number of Muslim refugees in Europe are converting to Christianity, according to churches, which have conducted mass baptisms in some places. Reliable data on conversions is not available but anecdotal evidence suggests a pattern of rising church attendance by […]
Originally published in Christian Today More than 3 500 Muslim refugees have turned to Christ and been baptised in Germany in the last two years, a new survey reveals. Churches report that many of the refugees being baptised had converted in their home countries such as Syria and Iraq, and […]
The Big White Prayer Tent has become an important feature of the Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC), providing new believers with an opportunity to pray a prayer of salvation together with a counsellor, be baptised in water, and be baptised in the Holy Spirit. Prayer and counselling for conflict in the family, […]
Originally published in Christian Today A Welsh church has celebrated an extraordinary baptismal service, remarkable both for the candidates and for the location. Tredegarville Baptist Church, located in Cardiff city centre, baptised 40 young adults in the cold February sea at the resort of Barry Island – and most of […]
When Heinrich Alberts preaches his last sermon at Hoogland Dutch Reformed Church, Port Elizabeth on Sunday it will be a bitter-sweet time. He will be sad that he has to leave the church he has loved and led for over seven years and his ministry in the Dutch Reformed church […]
Originally published in Christian Post Nearly two decades after rising to fame as part of the best-selling boy band in history, two members of the Backstreet Boys were captured on video recently getting baptised in Israel’s Jordan River. Last month, Backstreet Boys members Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell took time out […]
There is a profound thirst for prayer and counseling among many of the men who attend the Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC), according to Lance Walton, KMMC coordinator of the prayer tent. He says that while the KMMC did not have a prayer tent in its first year the organisers […]
Not even the cold nights could stop men from seizing the opportunity to be baptised last weekend during the Karoo Mighty Men Conference near Middelburg. After the opening Friday night meeting in which more than a thousand men responded to an altar call to commit their lives to Jesus, hundreds […]