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Originally published in CBN News There’s a fight on Capitol Hill to preserve funding for one of the most effective public health programmes in history. Since 2003, the US-led AIDS relief initiative known as PEPFAR, has saved more than 26 million lives. Sen Susan Collins spoke with CBN News about […]
Originally published by Charisma Media Nigeria has become the epicenter of global Christian persecution, and new attention from the White House is bringing long-ignored atrocities into the international spotlight. In a video by CBN News’ Raj Nair, the outlet looked at statistics on Christian persecution from Open Doors, a Christian […]
Originally published in Christianity Today Maria Shingi woke up one morning a decade ago with body aches. Then friends noticed she had gained weight and advised her to get a pregnancy test. Shingi, then 30, stopped at the pharmacy on her way home from her administrative job at the Nigerian […]
Originally published in Worthy News Islamic “terrorist groups” have stepped up “their rampage of death and destruction” across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past year while “increasingly targeting children” from Christian communities “to use them as weapons for war and abuse”, according to new findings by […]
Originally published in Christian Daily International An aerial view shows floodwaters inundating residential neighbourhoods in Mozambique, where torrential rains have displaced hundreds of thousands of people and caused widespread damage across several provinces. Youtube Screenshot / Associated Press Torrential rains have killed more than 200 people and displaced hundreds of thousands […]
Two months into the Zimbabwe stretch of his Cross Walk Africa walk from Cape Town to Jerusalem, evangelist Reini Coetzee, says crowds of people attracted by the cross he is wheeling, are slowing down his journey. “Sometimes it is overwhelming. But I enjoy sharing with the people. They’ve got open […]
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 […]