South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Hopes for an end to one of the world’s bloodiest contemporary conflicts have risen with an agreement concluded last Wednesday between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to end their two-year-long civil war. The agreement mediated by the African Union was signed in South Africa. The […]
A group of prayer warriors left Maseru for Cape Town today to carry out a prophetic prayer mission that began with a vision in Lesotho in 2001 and continued in January 2006 when a prayer group visited the highest mountain peak in Southern Africa. In a message to a Cape […]
Originally Published in Worthy News As Fulani militant herdsmen murdered 70 more Christians in Nigeria’s Benue state this month, local authorities called on the federal government to supply volunteer guards with AK-47s to protect citizens as official security agencies have been unable to stem the ongoing slaughter of believers by Islamic terrorists, Morning […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The United Kingdom-based watchdog Christian Solidarity Worldwide and one of its local partners are calling for the release of a Catholic bishop and two priests arrested earlier this month without reason in Eritrea, one of the world’s most repressive and closed countries. According to […]
Originally published in Persecution.Org Twenty Congolese Christians were killed and several others kidnapped after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) struck the village of Kainama, Beni territory in Nord Kivu on the night of October 4. The bishop of the Beni Anglican Diocese confirmed the attack by the Islamist rebel group, […]
Christians in Burkina Faso are facing an “existential threat” as Islamist militants capitalise on continued disruption and disorder in the country, a spokesman for Open Doors UK has said. “Islamist militants are waging an insurgency to establish a Caliphate, an Islamic State ruled by Sharia. “Thus non-Muslims are their prime […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A bishop in Mozambique has revealed that extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people together, before separating the Christians and slitting their throats. Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula of Nacala revealed the […]
Originally published in Christian News A Christian woman in northeast Nigeria is on trial after being held incommunicado for more than four months on blasphemy charges for forwarding a WhatsApp message, sources said. Rhoda Ya’u Jatau, 45, was arrested in Bauchi state in May after receiving a WhatsApp message from […]
The first-ever Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation (CESE) Africa Summit took place in Pretoria from September 20 to 22. The three-day programme was filled with invigorating, terrifying, sobering, and hopeful presentations on the why, what and how we can bring to an end the scourge of sexual abuse and exploitation […]
South African evangelism ministry In His Name Ministries reports back on their recent ground-breaking campaign in eastern Ethiopia We started building our relationships with the evangelical fellowships of Dire Dawa and Harar in August of last year, when we included these cities among those we visited to distribute the Amharic […]