A Uitenhage church prayer group is going to Thornhill on Saturday (August 13) to pray with police who patrol the Van Stadens Bridge area and to pray over the bridge where 80 people have committed suicide since it was opened in 1971. Volkswagen employee and Uitenhage Methodist Church member Dave […]
Author: Andre Viljoen
Hope in the Darkness: Unity and optimism among churches
[notice]Helenvale in Port Elizabeth has gained notoriety as the worst gangster violence hotspot in the city and one of the most dangerous places in South Africa. But for the people who live there, this small, poor, Northern Areas suburb is home. This article, is the second in a series of […]
Cape church launches documentary on Christianity in India
A Call to India (2011) — a 60 minute documentary on the current realities of the church in India — will have its world première on August 25 at the Stellenbosch High School. Produced by Empty Canvas Productions, in collaboration with Every Nation Church, Somerset West, the movie was filmed […]
Gospel concert for Ashleigh tonight!
Ten leading local Gospel music acts are performing in Port Elizabeth tonight to raise funds for PE teenager Ashleigh Botha to have life saving arterial bypass surgery in the USA. Concert organiser and one of the performers, Ron Reynolds, appeals to PE people to come and enjoy a great evening […]
God’s plan for PE prayer day for matrics
A Port Elizabeth woman is taking steps in faith to arrange a citywide day of prayer for matrics at a date and a time that she believes God has revealed to her. Sandy Peasnell has approached the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium management about hiring a 12 000 people capacity open […]
Blast near church in Kirkuk, Iraq injures 13
By Damaris Kremida – Compass Direct News A car blast outside a Syrian Catholic church in Kirkuk, Iraq yesterday morning left 13 wounded as police located and disarmed two more car bombs targeting churches in the city, according to area sources. Online video images of the attack against the Holy […]
Kidnapped Christian girl in Sudan escapes, traumatised
By Compass Direct News Hiba Abdelfadil Anglo, 16, has escaped from a gang of Muslims who kidnapped her last year, but it may be a long time before she recovers from the trauma. As she told Compass how the kidnappers beat, raped and tried to force her to convert from […]
Taking on human trafficking and prostitution
South Africa sent its clearest warning yet to human traffickers when the Pretoria Regional Court sentenced Adina dos Santos to life imprisonment for trafficking 3 teenage girls into prostitution. Reports of young women being lured into prostitution with false promises of jobs have increased steadily in South Africa. Two Chinese […]
Significant drop in police murders since 1994
The number of police officials murdered in South Africa has declined by 61.9% since 1994 according to figures published by the South African Institute of Race Relations. In 1994 there were 265 murders of police officers. The number of murders remained above 200 a year up until 1998. In 1999 […]
Muslim extremists torch churches in Zanzibar, Tanzania
By Simba Tian – Compass News Direct Muslim extremists on Saturday (July 30) burned down a church building on Zanzibar island off the coast of Tanzania, church leaders said, just three days after another congregation’s facility on the island was reduced to ashes. In Fuoni on the south coast […]