South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Port Elizabeth will have its first Walk For Freedom on Saturday October 14, along with hundreds of cities across 50 nations, participating in the global anti-human trafficking fundraising and awareness campaign. Operated by A21, the 2017 Walk For Freedom will see people dressed in black, walking silently, in single file, […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Many experts on Nigeria now believe that violence across the Middle Belt, which World Watch Monitor has reported at length, has been responsible for more deaths than Boko Haram. As Emmanuel Akinwotu wrote last year in the New Statesman, the conflict – between indigenous settled […]
Originally published in Anglican Communion News Service The Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, the Right Revd Dr Steve Moreo, has warned that the high levels of poverty in South Africa pose a great danger to the country. “This country is sitting on a powder keg of hopelessness,” he said, citing the figures […]
Originally published in Fox News Everyone is pitching in to clean up Florida after Hurricane Irma. That now includes a chainsaw-wielding nun. Sister Margaret Ann of Archbishop Coleman F Carroll High School in southwest Miami-Dade County decided to help out by cutting down a fallen tree in a full habit and […]
Churches and ministries afilliated to the Nelson Mandela Bay’ Switched On alliance are hard at work preparing for the Act1v8 (Activate) missions conference which will be hosted at various Port Elizabeth churches from Friday September 15 to Sunday September 17. Switched On, which was birthed during a citywide evangelism outreach […]
Never before has there been such a great need for pro-lifers to stand together regardless of their various affiliations, say the organisers of the National Alliance for Life (NAL) March for Life in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban, on Sunday October 1. NAL Conference 2017 Since February 1997 more than 1.2-million babies […]
Originally published in Charisma News In 1980, at age 59, Dois Rosser Jr sat at his kitchen table, staring at two columns he had drawn on a piece of paper. One was labelled “Kingdom Business”, the other, “Secular Business.” For years, Rosser had wanted to involve himself in ministry, but […]
Originally published in Christian Today Islamist militants went from house to house in villages on Kenya’s north coast on Wednesday, dragging out victims, shooting them and then beheading them. Witnesses to the horror said four died in total and called on police to act after they accused security services of […]
Originally published in Foreign Policy Do we want to be the generation that stood by as Christians disappeared almost entirely from the ancient homelands they have occupied since the days of the New Testament? Will the Trump administration and this Congress let this historic and preventable tragedy happen on their […]
The parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has postponed next week’s scheduled hearings on the CRL Commission’s controversial report recommending the regulation of religion, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in a press release. Blaming the delay on the need to consider more pressing legislation, […]