By Marco Chown Oved – Originally pubished in SRN News.Com The crowd suddenly surged around a young man, crying out for blood at a crowded bus station in Ivory Coast’s main city. Witnesses say at least 20 people hit him first with their fists and then with chunks of concrete, […]
Author: Andre Viljoen
Comrades silver medalist has big dream for Walmer Township
Port Elizabeth runner Nkosinati Vlakbok, 34, is one of seven men from Walmer Township who did well in the Comrades Marathon last Sunday and he has a dream of developing many more successful athletes in the community. After getting back to PE with his Comrades silver medal this week he […]
Five years jail sentence for giving Christian CD to neighbour
Convicting a Christian convert for insulting the prophet of Islam, a judge in Algeria last week stunned the Christian community by sentencing him beyond what a prosecutor recommended, Compass News Direct reported on Monday (May 30). In Oran, 470 kilometers west of Algiers, a criminal court in the city’s Djamel […]
Inspired car wash plays part in church mission to fight poverty
If you have ever driven into Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, you may have seen some young people washing cars in front of the colourful clutter of small shops and kiosks known as the Walmer Enterprise Village. Probably this mundane activity would not have caught your attention as you kept a […]
“Help us get 5 000 signatures by Monday,” say anti-porn campaigners
A Pietermaritzburg couple who started an online petition campaign to stop porn on e.tv hope to have 5 000 signatures by Monday when they will take on e.tv in a tribunal before the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA). Rene and Mark Morcom, founders of Christian-based child welfare organisation, […]
This week’s Christian news and commentary
Dear Friend This week we carried a reports about an inspiring ministry to the poor in Kleinskool, Port Elizabeth and a PE family’s desperate campaigning to raise funds for their daughter to have surgery in the US. We also reported on Angus Buchan’s big gospel outreach in Northern Ireland today […]
Kleinskool mission is “lighthouse” in the midst of despair
For the past 21 years feisty missionaries Boet and Annatjie Walker have been preaching the gospel, feeding the hungry, and uplifting the poor in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth. Now both approaching 70-years-old they are putting their energies into starting new upliftment projects at their Jesus is Lord Ministries […]
“No need to worry about end-of-world predictions if you read your Bible!”
If Christians would only read their bibles they would not have to be anxious about predictions of the end of the world, says farmer and evangelist Angus Buchan in a message he posted on video-sharing website youtube today. “I am so concerned about so many people who are feeling anxious […]
Angus Buchan expecting “revival” at big Northern Ireland outreach
South African farmer and evangelist Angus Buchan is trusting God to move mightly in the hearts of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland when he shares the gospel with them at the Odyssey Arena sports and entertainment centre in Belfast this weekend (May 27 and 28). The 15 000-capacity arena, […]
Election week news roundup
This week millions of South Africans exercised their right to vote for local government represetatives. Accordingly Gateway News carried various articles providing a biblical perspective on voting. And in Nelson Mandela Bay a new church forum, the Nelson Mandela Bay Consultation of Churches, was established to enable church leaders to […]