South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Daily Nation President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared Saturday (March 20) a national day of prayer for Kenya amid the worldwide outbreak of the new coronavirus. Kenyatta made the declaration on Tuesday, the same day the Minister for Health announced that Kenya now has four cases of Covid-19, […]
Originally published in The Christian Post. A Nigerian Christian girl, who was abducted in January and forced to convert to Islam, has finally been reunited with her family in the country’s northcentral Kaduna state. The Hausa Christians Foundation (HCF) told the independent daily newspaper, Vanguard, that Sadiya Amos has escaped […]
Originally published in Christianity Today The Nigerian government now agrees with what church leaders have been complaining for years: Christians are the target of jihadist terrorism. “In the wake of a renewed onslaught by our tireless military against Boko Haram and their ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) allies in […]
Originally published in UG Christian News Uganda Christian News has learnt of Christian worshippers in Nigeria who still come together for prayer despite their church building being razed by terrorist group Boko Haram. The Barnabas Fund, an international Christian aid agency, reports that four church elders in the village of […]
Originally published in Religion News Service As anxious families in the troubled Middle East and North Africa — and especially Iran — face the coronavirus epidemic, Christian broadcaster SAT-7 (www.sat7usa.org) this week launched a new campaign to “calm the wave of fear with God’s peace”. With coronavirus — known as […]
Originally published in All Africa News The new Church of Uganda Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu on Sunday started his tenure in a colourful ceremony at Namirembe Cathedral in Kampala and made fresh vows never to accept gay marriages in the church. Archbishop Kaziimba said the church shall continue to emphasise […]
Originally published in CBN News More than 100 members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked the town of Garkida in Gombi area of the northeastern state of Adamawa, Nigeria on Friday night, opening fire on townspeople and setting fire to churches and houses, according to multiple media outlets. […]
Wednesday marked two years since Leah Sharibu and fellow students were kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, Borno State, Nigeria by Boko Haram. All the girls were released one month later (except for five who died during the ordeal), but Leah, 16, remains in captivity because she refuses to deny […]
Originally published in Evangelical Focus At least 24 people were killed, including a church pastor, by unidentified gunmen who attacked a church in northern Burkina Faso, local officials said on Monday. The attack took place on Sunday during a worship service at a Protestant church in the village of Pansi […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A historic desert locust infestation in East Africa could cause the next major famine as people in the region are already struggling with hunger after droughts were followed by cyclone flooding, one of the world’s leading evangelical charities has warned. A growing spread of […]