South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in CBN News Two churches in Iowa are challenging a state law that would censor churches from expressing biblical views on sexuality and gender identity — even from the pulpit. Fort Des Moines Church of Christ filed a federal lawsuit against the Iowa Civil Rights Commission on Monday […]
A prominent Christian school in Sandton has come under fire for being “Islamophobic” and anti-Islam, reports News24 in an account that is a snapshot of the culture shift in which Christians in South Africa find themselves living today. The accusations of “Islamophobia” – and racism – against the King’s School in […]
Originally published by Sunday Adelaja’s Blog Something wonderful in the Christian sense is happening in Tibet, a region in China considered as the highest in the world and the home of Mount Everest, earth’s highest mountain rising more than 29 009 feet(8.84km) above sea level. Tibetans are mostly Buddhist, but […]
Movie and Book Review by Val Viljoen This must-see movie releases in SA on July 22 2016 I have both read the book of this title and seen a preview of the movie. Interestingly, the novel was based on the movie, which is a reversal of the norm. The movie […]
Originally published in Christian Daily On June 9, seven Christians participated in an extracurricular activity in school in which they distributed a handkerchief and a Bible handbook titled “A Great Story” to each of the 885 students. Local politicians told the police about the activity, leading to the arrest of […]
Christianity has been responsible for the formation of the bedrock of the political, economic and legal systems that provide the pillars of Western democracy. Yet few would dispute that, during the last 50 years, there has been a steady undermining of the Biblical values that have historically formed the foundations […]
Book Review by Andre Viljoen Good Faith — Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme — by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons More and more people today believe that Christianity is “irrelevant” and “extreme”, say the authors of this book. Society is not only moving away from […]
Originally published in The Christian Institute Christians preaching the Gospel could be caught by upcoming extremism legislation, The Christian Institute has warned. On Tuesday, media reports stated that the Government would announce its extremism Bill in the Queen’s speech on May 18. Responding to the news, The Christian Institute said […]
Originally published in Mission Network News According to a report by Breibart, Rome will dye its Trevi Fountain red on Friday, April 29, in honour of this era’s historic number of Christian martyrs. As of today, there are around 150 million Christians facing persecution across the globe, and it doesn’t […]
Originally published in Charisma News If you started at Genesis 1:1 and kept reading — without stopping until you finished Revelation 22:21 — it would take about 90 hours to read the entirety of the Bible. We know that because, for the past 26 years, Christians from around the country […]