South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A proposed African charter aimed at promoting family values, national sovereignty and cultural identity is drawing support from lawmakers and religious leaders across the continent while sparking opposition from human rights groups and some governments, who say it could undermine existing protections for women and minority groups, reports Christian Daily. Eighteen […]
Originally published iChristian Daily International Eight years after 14-year-old Leah Sharibu was kidnapped by Islamic extremists along with 109 others from a girls’ school in Nigeria’s Yobe state on February 19 2018, she is the only remaining captive. Now 22, Leah refused her captors’ demands to deny Christ and convert […]
Originally published in Christian Daily Church leaders have warned that growing anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa reflects deeper failures in governance, service delivery and economic inequality, urging authorities and communities to address the root causes of public frustration rather than scapegoating foreign nationals. In a webinar convened by the Association […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News At least a dozen Orthodox Christians have been killed and a century-old church destroyed in a fresh wave of attacks in Ethiopia’s Arsi Zone. The violence, which took place on May 30, left homes and buildings in ruins, including the 101-year-old Telata St Gabriel […]
“The cross has power which I can’t explain,” said a 72-year-old Malawian pastor who has been accompanying evangelist Reini Coetzee during the Malawi stretch of his Crosswalk Africa trek from Cape Town to Jerusalem. Pastor Bernard Frera Mlombwa, who has been with Reini for much of the time since he […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A Catholic bishop has been shot dead in Mozambique. Fifty-year-old Osorio Citora Afonso, the Bishop of Quelimane and Apostolic Administrator of Beira, was shot in the chest in what the Church is describing as “mysterious circumstances”. His body was found on June 6 at […]
Originally published in CBN News Four years of violent warfare between factions of the Sudanese military have spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Estimates range between 12 million and 14 million people who have been forcibly displaced. Even more, approximately 20 million people face severe hunger. That’s more than a third […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News The fiancée of an Egyptian man who is facing trial over converting to Christianity has issued an urgent appeal for journalists to “break the silence” over what she describes as “state-sanctioned religious persecution”. 30-year-old Said Mansour Rezk Abdelrazek is due to stand trial at […]
Originally published in CSW A Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria convicted four defendants on multiple terrorism-related charges in connection with a deadly 2022 attack on a Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, southern Nigeria on 3 June. A fifth defendant was acquitted and discharged for lack of evidence. Idris […]
Originally published in Worthy News A Kenyan court on Tuesday extended for another three weeks a suspension of a proposed US-backed Ebola quarantine facility that has sparked deadly protests and fierce public debate, while ordering the government to disclose its agreement with Washington. The proposed 50-bed unit at Laikipia Air […]