South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in The Christian Post The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing social pressure. A report […]
Originally published in Harbinger’s Daily Luka Binniyat, a Kaduna-based journalist recognised as one of Nigeria’s preeminent voices reporting on the persecution of Christians in Southern Kaduna, has been formally cleared of criminal defamation charges after a five-year legal battle. In November 2021, Binniyat wrote an article for the US-based Epoch Times in […]
Neziswa Kanju recently attended a media breakfast in Pretoria hosted by MegaVoice International Africa, a Christian non-profit organisation which takes the Word of God to illiterate, unreached people across Africa via innovative audio and video formats. “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, […]
Originally published in Christian Today UN experts have raised concerns over worsening violence and insecurity in Nigeria, warning that Christian women and girls are among those facing an elevated threat of killings, abduction, sexual violence and forced marriage. The concerns were set out by five UN human rights experts in […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News The World Health Organization is warning that the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could surpass the devastating 2014–2016 West Africa epidemic and become the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News The Trump administration has announced nearly $2 billion (R32.34 billion) in health and humanitarian assistance for faith-based organisations, placing several major Christian ministries at the center of a reshaped US foreign-aid strategy following sweeping cuts to USAID programs. The State Department described the initiative […]
Originally published in CBN News Some of the 163 kidnapped Nigerians rescued from jihadi captivity have spoken of the suffering and fear they lived in for six months. The freed captives, mostly women and children, were among over 300 kidnap victims freed by Nigerian forces this week. They were handed […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Two church leaders abducted in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains have been released, local sources said. The Rev Yaqob Ibrahim Tia and Zakaria Suliman Jana, both prominent leaders of a Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) congregation in Heiban, South Kordofan state, were freed on July 28 […]
Originally published in My Christian Daily Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said. Christians in the 99% Muslim country gather discreetly in homes, garages or under […]
Originally published in Worthy News Christians in Nigeria were mourning Wednesday after dozens of believers were killed in coordinated attacks on villages in the country’s northwestern Kaduna State, with local monitors warning the death toll may exceed 60. Initial reports indicated that at least 30 Christians were killed in Naridon […]