South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A woman from Mali in Western Africa has safely delivered nine little newborns. Known as “nonuplets,” the babies have drawn a lot of attention from the medical world for the rarity of this ready-made large family. To date, only two sets of nonuplets have ever been recorded, and sadly none […]
Originally published in UG Christian News The offence of murder cannot be preferred, legislators warn A cross section of legislators encouraged Ugandans to seek knowledge from the Bible, and abandon primitive behaviour, including witchcraft, as a new law criminalising the act of human sacrifice was passed. This took place on […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Camp for the displaced and five villages attacked Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday night (April 26) killed 10 Christians who had taken refuge in a camp for the displaced in north-central Nigeria, bringing to 33 the number of Christians slain in Benue state the […]
Open Doors Southern Africa is celebrating 50 years of existence on Monday May10. For the past 50 years, this ministry organisation has worked with the Church in Southern Africa to strengthen and support persecuted Christians in numerous countries all over the world. Open Doors Southern Africa is part of the […]
I recently caught up with Carol Campbell, the Cape Town-based director of Healing Rooms Africa, an interdenominational Christian ministry that promotes restoration and healing as a normal part of Christian ministry. Carol has travelled extensively in South Africa, Africa and beyond to set up healing rooms, to train believers in […]
Originally published in CBN News On Monday Sudan abolished a decades-old law on boycotting Israel, part of efforts to establish normal ties with the Jewish state. A bill was approved at a joint meeting of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council and Cabinet that annuls the 1958 law. The law had forbidden […]
Originally published in Voice of the Martyrs There are currently approximately 15 million Fulani people living in Africa. They are believed to be the largest semi-nomadic group in the world and are found across West and Central Africa – from Senegal to the Central African Republic. The vast majority (about […]
Originally published in barnabasfund.org The savage violence of Islamist militants in northern Mozambique is driving the local population from their homes in terror – and Christians are one of their main targets. Beheading, skinning and cutting off the limbs of their victims are the group’s typical methods. “What they do […]
Originally published in CBN News Eight Christians who were abducted at gunpoint while traveling to an Easter programme in Kafanchan, Nigeria on March 26 have been released from captivity. Members of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) were on their way to attend an evangelism program when their church’s bus was […]
In Part 1 of this short series of articles I shared some of the recollections of a Christian leader who was part of a multidenominational Christian revival that started among young people in Sudan in the early 90s and which spread to different parts of the Muslim-majority country despite civil […]