South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Practical ways to save money and become better stewards of God’s blessings will be shared at a “Fight Against Poverty Seminar” at Fountain Vineyard Church, Port Elizabeth at 7pm on Thursday, April 18. Anybody who is concerned about people who are battling to make ends meet, or who needs to […]
The youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria on Wednesday warned President Goodluck Jonathan against granting any kind of amnesty deal to the militant group known as Boko Haram, calling the proposition “a clarion call to all terrorism in Nigeria.” In recent weeks, the clamor from leaders of Nigeria’s […]
Originally published in Charisma News Condolences are pouring in for Pastor Rick Warren after his 27-year-old son, Matthew, committed suicide over the weekend. Matthew had suffered from mental illness long before taking his own life. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, says his heart stands broken […]
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry.[/notice] Over the Easter period I met some ladies for prayer. We talked about many things including the fact that our earthly experiences of family have a great effect on our relationship with our Heavenly Father and other Christians. This makes sense because Jesus used the example […]
Exonerated man spent more than 7 years in jail By World Watch Monitor A Pakistan court Wednesday threw out the 2007 conviction of a Christian man sentenced to death for offending Islam. Younis Masih is at least the second Christian accused of blasphemy that Pakistan judges have exonerated since the […]
The Russian military has introduced a high-tech air-dropped church along with a unit of priests trained in parachuting and vehicle assembly to serve the army and navy’s Orthodox Christian soldiers in the field. The European country claims its airborne-friendly and ready-to-assemble house of worship is the first the world has […]
Originally published in allAfrica.com The Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, has called on religious leaders and the government to work together to ensure peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims in the country. According to Vatican Radio, the call follows attacks in the past weeks by Islamic fundamentalists […]
Originally published in CBN News Christians in central Nigeria are appealing for prayer after a new round of violence left as many as 80 people dead and more than 4 000 others displaced during the Easter season. At least 19 people were killed this week when gunmen attacked the mostly […]
Originally published in Christian Post A $5 million bounty has been put up by the Obama administration on Wednesday for information leading to the capture of Lord’s Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, as well as two of his top aides, and a Rwandan rebel suspected of crimes against humanity. The […]
Originally published in Charisma News April is the month when Israel remembers the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust (sundown April 7-8), when every vehicle stops and humans stand at attention for two minutes while sirens sound. Then on April 14-15, another siren sounds on Memorial Day for the […]