South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 World Watch Monitor Another church in Tanzania’s extreme north-west corner, Kagera — bordering Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda — was burned to the ground on May 2 by suspected arsonists. No group has claimed responsibility for the fire that destroyed the Roman Catholic church in Nyarwele. It is […]
Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair arrived in Richards Bay this week and was officially opened to the public today. The ship with her crew of 400 Christian volunteers from 60 nations will be in Richard’s Bay — her second port of call in her first trip to […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The annual National Day of Prayer is expected to be larger than ever, with an estimated 47 000 local events taking place across the United States. For the 65th year in a row Americans will observe the National Day of Prayer, which is held […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald The daughter of a Muslim ruler in the Middle East who embraced Christianity after a miraculous encounter with Jesus Christ has been imprisoned for her faith, according to a local ministry. Evangelist Paul Siniraj, founder of Bibles For Mideast, an undercover Bible smuggling ministry […]
Originally published in Christian Today Next month’s ‘Reason Rally’ in Washington is expected to attract around 20 000 atheists, including actor Johnny Depp and other big-name speakers like Bill Nye and Lawrence Krauss. As well as fiery speeches against religion, however, participants in the June 4 event will be given […]
It is never easy for best-selling Christian author and speaker Joyce Meyer to talk about her traumatic childhood experiences. However, she recently decided to talk about it at length in the hope that this will give hope to people facing a similar situation that recovery and healing through God is […]
Originally published in Lifesite News Nearly a million people [986 400 at time of posting this report] have pledged to boycott United States discount chain store,Target, over the company’s new policy allowing men to use women’s bathrooms. The American Family Association, which launched the petition, says the fact that it’s […]
Originally published in Christian Today U2 musician Bono has criticised modern Christian music for its ‘lack of honesty’. The comments came out of a conversation with Eugene Peterson, a pastor and theologian best known for the “Message” translation of Bible. They discussed the poetry of the scriptures and in particular […]
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 […]