South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A group of 16 Christians recently completed a unique mission to prophetically proclaim God’s light into South Africa by giving 90 cm high brass lampstands (menorahs) to a ministry in each of the nine provinces in South Africa. The so-called Menorah Mission which was conducted without any publicity from March […]
Sisi’s victory: A step forward in protecting Egypt’s Christians? By Todd Daniels and ICC’s Egypt Representative Egyptians have cast their votes in the first presidential election since the removal of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. As preliminary results come in, it appears that Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has received more than 95 […]
An alarming number of children are raped every day in South Africa. And tragically the deep pain and shame of these childhood experiences launches many young people into lives blighted by substance abuse and sexual bondage. Nina Blount, 40, was sexually abused by family members from the age of 4 […]
Originally published in Christian Today After the BJP’s historic election victory this week, Christians in India have mixed feelings about the future and how the country’s new leaders will impact on freedom of religion. The last week has been a massive turnaround for the once struggling opposition party that suffered […]
Two dreams have merged in the informal settlement of Zandspruit, Johannesburg, where a group of young, Christian architects have launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a church for a congregation that has been meeting in a tent for almost 20 years. “For me as a Christian it has always been […]
The African Christian Democratic Party, which despite its small representation in Parliament, has played a key role in defending religious freedom in South Africa over the past 20 years, will feel justifiably disappointed at the lack of support it enjoyed at the polls on May 7. Clearly calls by prominent […]
Originally published in WND An Egyptian court in the southern city of Minya sentenced 683 people to death Monday in the most recent of a series of mass trials that have alarmed the international community, nine months after a military coup ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president. The ruling came […]
Cape Town pro-life activist Peter Throp, who has been praying almost daily outside an abortion clinic in the city, was one of the thousands of men who attended the Karoo Mighty Men Conference last weekend. I asked Throp what had led him to attend the event so far from his […]
Not even the cold nights could stop men from seizing the opportunity to be baptised last weekend during the Karoo Mighty Men Conference near Middelburg. After the opening Friday night meeting in which more than a thousand men responded to an altar call to commit their lives to Jesus, hundreds […]
The Gender Desk and Diocesan Youth Council of the Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth are hosting the “I’M THE ONE” Seminar on Saturday, May 10, from 08h30 to 12h30 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Central. Canon Ethel Pittaway describes the theme based on Ephesians 2:8-10 as “I’m the one saved by […]