South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Morning Star News Residents of a village in Kaduna state have confirmed to news outlet Truth Nigeria that 177 Christians were kidnapped from three churches on Sunday January 18 following government attempts to impede access and block information about the crime. Interviews with church officials, survivors and […]
Originally published in Christian Daily Ugandan religious leaders are urging calm as the country prepares for elections on January 15, following a nationwide internet shutdown that has cut major communications networks. Authorities blocked internet access on January 13, just days before President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, seeks […]
In its 6th Edition, the Annual Namibia Family Conference (ANFC) was convened on December 10 by Youth One Africa Ministries, the Coalition of Churches and Organisations on Ethical Social Justice, the Alliance of Christian Churches in Namibia (ACCN), Passover Africa, ENOSI, New Wave and the 24-Hour Prayer and Worship Gathering. […]
Originally published in Christian Today A senior Sudanese church leader has issued an urgent appeal for global action, warning that Sudan’s escalating civil war has created one of the world’s most overlooked humanitarian disasters. Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo, head of the Province of Sudan and Bishop of Khartoum, made the appeal […]
Originally published in CSW One hundred of the 253 schoolchildren who were abducted in an armed raid on St Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in the Papiri community of Agwara Local Government Area (LGA) in Niger State were transported to the state capital, Minna, on December 8, where they […]
Originally published in The Roys Report Armed Muslim bandits attacked Ejiba, a community in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi state in central Nigeria, on Sunday morning, abducting a pastor, his wife, and several worshippers during a church service. The incident occurred at a newly established Cherubim and Seraphim Church, […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Two churches in Port Sudan were defaced in coordinated acts of vandalism, with Islamic declarations painted in red graffiti on their exterior walls. The incidents occurred last week in the centre of the city’s market area. At the Sudan Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Islamic […]
ALSO SEE: Nigerian president declares nationwide emergency amidst terror surge Over the past 15 years I have been sharing the God stories of Africa, I don’t think a week has gone by when the Christian news sources I monitor have not documented violence against Christians somewhere in Africa. This week […]
Originally published by CSW ALSO SEE: Prayer, action needed amidst relentless terror attacks on Christians across Africa President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has responded to a significant surge in armed violence and mass abductions across Nigeria by declaring a nationwide security emergency, ordering the recruitment of additional manpower to the armed […]
By Gerda Potgieter When South African Mercy Ships volunteer Anne-Marie van Tonder saw a baby girl with a big lump on her neck in a children’s hospital in Freetown. Sierra Leone, she felt compelled to get her onto her ship’s surgery list. The problem was that Memunatu, 10 months, had […]