South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Launch of prayer programme for elections Delegates from all provinces of South Africa are gathering in Bhisho from today until Saturday for a strategic prayer conference around the theme of ‘Raising a Godly priesthood to establish righteousness and justice in the nation’. A prayer programme for the 2014 General […]
I have been reliably informed that Top TV – renamed StarSat is already broadcasting two hard-core pornographic channels in SA and have every intention of launching the rest publically on December 1. A source previously high up in Top TV informed me that Top TV executives were already receiving pornographic […]
Originally published in Charisma News Families in the Philippines are facing the task of finding each other. The typhoon there has separated loved ones from each other across the country. As some begin to lose hope they’ll find their family members alive, many are relying on another hope to get […]
Originally published in WND All we hear of Nigeria in the news is about attacks on Christians by the terror group Boko Haram. But something different is happening in the country’s south, as reflected in a three and a half square mile pavilion a Pentecostal church is constructing to accommodate […]
By World Watch Monitor The UN Secretary General Ban-Ki moon said on Monday (November 18) that anarchy in the Central African Republic risks spiralling further out of control, and could need up to 9,000 peacekeepers. In a report Ki-moon commissioned, due to be debated at the UN on Nov. 25, […]
Originally published in Jerusalem Post Bishara Shlayan, a Christian Arab from Nazareth, is hoping to build a huge statue of Jesus on Mount Precipice, near his home city. Shlayan told The Jerusalem Post in an interview that he has already begun fund-raising for the project and that he is getting […]
Originally published in Urban Christian News An Idaho pastor who is being detained in a notorious prison in Iran has been allowed to visit members of his family, a development that human rights groups attribute to international pressure calling for his release. The American Center for Law & Justice said […]
Gateway News launching monthly column to celebrate ‘True Champions’ Men and women who the public have nominated because of their stand against corruption were honoured at a function at the Communitas Auditorium in Waterkloof Glenn, Pretoria, on Monday (November 18) evening. “The idea was not to have a competition, but rather […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen HEART OF THE COUNTRY by RENE GUTTERIDGE & JOHN WARD Heart of the Country is the story of two prodigals. Luke is from a wealthy background; Faith has come to the big city from the country, running from her father and sister on the death […]
[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] Homegrown photography on the frontline I recently attended the ‘Together Let’s Stop the Traffick’ summit in Ottawa, […]