South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
FOUR archbishops and 34 bishops of the Anglican Communion have signed an open letter demanding that exploratory oil drilling be stopped in northern Namibia. A Canadian firm, ReconAfrica, has been granted rights by the Namibian government to drill wells to search for oil and gas in the Kavango Basin, an area that […]
Originally published in Uganda Christian News Around East Africa, multitides are sharing tributes to Tanzania’s president John Pombe Magufuli who passed away at age 61. He died on Wednesday from “heart complications” at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan, the vice-president of Tanzania said in an address on state television. She […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Eritrea has freed 21 female Christian prisoners but the country’s forces stand accused of attacking churches in the troubled Tigray region of neighbouring Ethiopia. The women, all reportedly young mothers, had been held in an island prison on the Red Sea since last August. […]
The terrorist insurgency in northern Mozambique is not just a Mozambican problem but is a Southern African regional emergency that cannot be ignored by governments of the region, says the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa (FOCCISA) in a statement released this week. According to the statement FOCCISA has […]
Originally published in Baptist Press A surge in school kidnappings in northwestern Nigeria is blamed loosely on bandits rather than clearly defined Islamic terrorist groups, according to news reports, but puts Christians at greater risk of harm than Muslims. At least one Christian student was killed in a recent spate […]
A multi-aged, multinational and multi-denominational army of women prayer warriors joined ranks last Saturday in a second Africa-wide vittual prayer connect hosted by Dr Fay Nqoloba, CEO of Warrior Woman of the Kingdom and Talitha Cumi Foundation this year. Following on a general Africa prayer connect on January 30, this event was […]
Julita Kok is once again handing the steering wheel over to Jesus — this time on a road trip with God through Namibia. Read Episode 1 of her weekly reports here. Jesus take the wheel SA series And here I am on my way to Namibia feeling so inadequate for […]
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has warned that the country is on the brink of collapse, considering ongoing security and other crises in the country The warning came on Wednesday as bandits killed 18 in Kaduna and Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State confirmed the killing of 10 […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines A Christian leader in Sudan was detained and beaten last Friday for speaking out against the burning of a church building, sources said. Masked men believed to be national security personnel seized Osama Saeed Kodi, chairman of the Christian Youth Union of Al Jazirah state, […]
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has called on South African faith groups and civil society lobbies to press the SA government to intervene in a Ethiopia where the government is accused of committing war crimes against the people of the northern province of Tigray. Warning that what […]