South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in LifeSiteNews The organiser of 40 Days for Life London has great hopes of the twice-annual campaign making significant changes to the social and political scene in the UK. Robert Colquhoun told LifeSiteNews.com today that while he does not necessarily directly credit last year’s prayer vigils for the […]
Churches across Egypt under attack in Islamist backlash Reports compiled from NBC News, World Watch Monitor and Watani International Egypt descended into a chaotic bloodbath – and another political crisis today (Wednesday, August 14) after security forces backed by bulldozers moved into opposition protest camps set up by supporters […]
‘Freedom Road’ a short film by Cape Town production house Media Village has won the 2013 Best International film award at the scripture-themed 168 International Film Festival. The movie which explores giving and receiving forgiveness as a result of devastations of the apartheid era, also picked up five additional awards […]
Barely a week goes by in SA without the media reporting another incident of police corruption. The latest story involves a Western Cape police captain who allegedly raped a prostitute in his private vehicle. Pro-prostitution groups usually use incidences of police criminality and corruption to lobby for decriminalised prostitution. However, […]
Originally published in Religion Today Christians in Central African Republic have been shocked by the violent arrest on Tuesday of the president of the Evangelical Alliance of Central African Republic (CAR), Pastor Nicolas Grekoyame Gbangouon, Open Doors USA reports. Sources, who cannot be named for security reasons, told Open Doors […]
By World Watch Monitor At least 1 200 people have been killed in the last four years in Northern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, according to a preliminary investigation by the International Criminal Court. The Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said on Monday (August 5) the ICC […]
Originally published in The Christian Post On the world’s largest social media site a controversial group page accused of being hateful toward Christian belief has been taken down. “Virgin Mary Should’ve Aborted,” which had at its peak about 6,800 likes, was taken down Wednesday likely in response to complaints from […]
God has given the ailing Nelson Mandela to the nation as a “message for this moment” say South African Church leaders who met in Pretoria yesterday to consider the state of the Church and the nation. Noting the prayers and good wishes for the former President from all sectors of […]
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry. Reflections on week 4 of 10 weeks teaching stint.[/notice] Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do […]
[notice]A response to what is happening prophetically in the world today — A monthly column by Julie de Lisle[/notice] Seeing as though Friday the 9 th of August is women’s day, I decided it apt to give my attention to the topic of women in this column. Over the past […]