South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Frontpage Yet another jihadist attack in north Cameroon has led to the kidnapping of two Christians. Boko Haram terrorists reportedly abducted the Christians on August 10 when they targeted the village of Mahoula in Mayo-Sava Division, an area notorious for the terror group’s attacks and its splinter operations because […]
Originally published in Christian Daily More than 300 people were baptised at a gathering of the Methodist Church in Cuba’s Guantánamo District, according to Luzvisión Noticias, which described the event as historic. Bishop Ricardo Pereira and Superintendent Roelvis Gaínza led the ceremony, which drew hundreds of families. The outlet reported […]
Book PreviewFor 15 years, from 2011 to 2026, Sharon Gabay photographed Jerusalem through its people rather than its monuments. Born in the city, into a family that has lived there for generations, he went out into the streets week after week, at eye level, without staging. JERUSALEMITES, published in 2026, […]
Originally published in The Christian Post President Donald Trump has nominated Cissie Graham Lynch to serve as the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, seeking to fill a key diplomatic post that has lacked a Senate-confirmed ambassador since the beginning of his second term. The White House announced on Monday […]
Originally published in CBN Earlier this month, Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower court ruling barring a Christian mother from bringing her own child to church. That mother is now taking a stand for her faith and her rights as an American. For Emily Bickford, taking her daughter to church has always […]
Scripture: Matthew 5:6 – “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”Prayer: Father, give citizens, leaders, candidates, and communities a hunger for Righteousness and justice. Lord, cleanse our motives, ambitions and hopes to align with Yours. Purify our hearts that we would rise […]
By Pastor Bert Pretorius, President: South African Community of Faith-Based Fraternals and Federations (SACOFF) Eight women. Eight bodies now forming part of an expanding police investigation in Ekurhuleni. And once again South Africans are being told that “no stone will be left unturned”. We welcome President Cyril Ramaphosa’s instruction that […]
“Concerned church leaders across Nelson Mandela Bay have identified the Local Government Elections on 4 November 2026 as an important priority for the Church in our metro this year,” says Rev Danie Mouton, Director Synod Eastern Cape DRC, in a media statement. “We therefore share the statement, A Christian Public […]
Originally published in The Christian Post For six and a half years, Jeff Woodke, a missionary worker with Youth with a Mission Relief and Development, slept outside in the West African desert, often with chains around his ankles. There was no room, no bed and, for much of that time, almost no […]
Published on My Christian Daily. A bid to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales collapsed last Friday after the House of Commons voted against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, marking a sharp reversal from the same chamber’s decision just over a year earlier to advance the […]