South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Dr Michael Louis chairman of One South Africa urges government to drop its flawed Electoral Bill now and join hands to achieve optimal voting system In a month’s time, the Constitutional Court-ordered deadline given to Parliament to change the laws that govern our voting system at national and provincial level […]
Originally published in CBN.com The Senate rejected a Democratic-led bill Wednesday that would have guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. Politico reports that all 50 Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W-VA) voted against S 4132, also known as the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022. The vote was 49-51 and Democrats needed 60 votes for […]
Originally published in CBN.com Authorities in Hong Kong arrested a 90-year-old former Catholic bishop over his reported support for a pro-democracy group. Officials have repeatedly detained Cardinal Joseph Zen — the former bishop of Hong Kong — due to his role as a trustee with the group 612 Humanitarian Relief […]
On May 4 the minister of health, Dr Joe Paahla published new “interim” health regulations that look a lot like the old state-of-disaster regulations and also extended the time period for public comment on draft “permanent” health regulations. He also said he was extending the time for public comments on […]
Originally published in Church Times The Australian General Synod of the Anglican Church, meeting in Queensland, has failed to pass a formal statement brought by the diocese of Sydney, which sought to declare that both same-sex marriage and same-sex marriage blessings were contrary “to the teaching of Christ and the faith, ritual, […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A senior associate pastor at the Bellevue Christian Center in Nebraska, USA, who had been waiting for months to find a donor on the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s kidney transplant list, cried tears of joy before his congregation as he revealed their lead […]
By Gerda Potgieter FEBC Ukraine radio hosts are not allowing the war with Russian invaders to stop them from sharing the Good News of Jesus through radio programmes and direct contact with listeners. One such host, Inna, tells of a female listener who called the radio for help after a […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced an Iranian-Armenian Christian man to 10 years in prison for establishing a house church, which the judge called “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam,” according to reports. Branch 26 of the Revolutionary […]
Gateway News spoke to author and missionary Ashley Cloete about his new book What God Joined Together Starting next week, we will be posting the book on Gateway News as a chapter-by-chapter series. Ashley, I interviewed you about your book Revival Seeds Germinate two years ago. You noted that it […]
The Kairos Network (KN) — an association of Dutch Reformed Church members committed to preserving biblical truth — had “historic meetings” in the past week with “key players in the reformed world” in SA and abroad, said KN chairman Dr Anton Knoetze in a press release. According to the press […]