South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The City Connect 50 Days of Prayer initiative for the 2026 South African local government elections will go live on the popular YouVersion Bible app from Friday September 4. App users will be able to select a plan (See link: https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/76318) that will give them access to daily prayer points […]
Gafcon, the body governing the Anglican grouping that broke with Canterbury last year has decided to establish its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, according to a communique released on August 29 by the Most Rev Laurent Mbanda, chairman of the Global Anglican Council. Mbanda said the decision was taken at a council meeting […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A pastor in the US has created an artificial intelligence version of himself to help church members when he is unavailable. Rev Justin Lester of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church has built an AI “digital doppelganger” using his sermons, books, social media posts and other […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News Iranian authorities have killed or imprisoned dozens of Christians amid a widening crackdown on the country’s underground church, according to Iran Alive Ministries, a Texas-based Christian ministry with a network inside Iran. Iran Alive founder Hormoz Shariat told Baptist Press that at least 33 […]
Originally published in CBN What was supposed to be a massive weekend of Christian worship and celebration in the United Kingdom came to a heartbreaking halt after a pastor was killed in a devastating accident at Big Church Festival. Pastor Robert Guanco, 41, died Friday, August 28, after a large sign […]
Originally published in CBN A surrogate mother who was contractually obligated to have an abortion refused and gave birth against the wishes of the child’s biological parents. Now a custody battle is underway while the newborn receives life-saving heart surgeries. After struggling to have a baby, California couple Nausheen Gilkar and […]
By Vincent Matinde — Originally published in Christian Daily International Two Christians have been kidnapped in northern Cameroon in the latest attack attributed to Boko Haram militants, prompting renewed concern over the safety of believers living in communities near the Nigerian border. The two Christians were reportedly kidnapped on Aug. […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing social pressure. A report […]
Originally published in Harbinger’s Daily Luka Binniyat, a Kaduna-based journalist recognised as one of Nigeria’s preeminent voices reporting on the persecution of Christians in Southern Kaduna, has been formally cleared of criminal defamation charges after a five-year legal battle. In November 2021, Binniyat wrote an article for the US-based Epoch Times in […]
President Ramaphosa has embraced the language of self-regulation for the Church. But a council established by an Act of Parliament to determine where your faith begins and ends is not self- regulation. It is state control by another name. In the article below Pastor Bert Pretorius president of the South […]