South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in The Christian Post A woman in eastern Uganda has been hospitalised with serious burns after her Muslim husband discovered she had converted to Christianity and set her on fire, area sources said. Hajara Namwase, a 32-year-old mother of three children in Kenkebu village, Budaka town, is still […]
Originally published in Church Times A church used by two different Christian congregations has been destroyed in the shelling of Sudan’s second largest city, during the continuing conflict between the Sudanese military and a paramilitary faction. The Church of Our Saviour, in Omdurman, which dates back to the 1900s, and was […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News Experts from the United Nations (UN) have sent a letter to the Nigerian government raising concerns over the country’s strict blasphemy laws. The letter is a result of appeals by religious freedom advocates, including ADF International, who say the laws are a violation of human […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News A campus watchdog group has warned that staff at Nigeria’s Kaduna State University assisted in the kidnapping and forced conversion to Islam of a female Christian student, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Twenty-year-old Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola, was a first-year chemistry student at the university […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) says that Leah Sharibu, who has been held captive in Nigeria for the last five years, is still alive and has given birth to her third child. Sharibu was one of 110 schoolgirls seized […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The killers of a tour guide and two tourists in western Uganda accused them of supporting Christian work, days after an evangelist in Kampala was beaten unconscious after Muslim extremists attacked him for being an “infidel,” sources said. Those killed were Ugandan Christian tour […]
The nation building Time2Rise movement that is uniting the Body of Christ in South Africa for change, is spreading to two more African countries. At a Time2Rise South Africa event outside Bloemfontein on October 7. Dr Arno van Niekerk, one of the facilitators of the gathering, said “God is showing […]
Gateway News spoke with Apostle David McDonald who took a team of 19 people from America on a “mission safari” to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Uganda last month. The South Caronlina-based leader who originally came from South Africa said his goal for such missions “is to connect the […]
Originally published in Persecution.org The Nigerian Air Force recently conducted airstrikes against extremist groups in the Lake Chad Basin including Boko Haram/Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Fulani militants. The Nigerian Air Force confirmed terrorist activities against civilians and “obliterated the terrorists’ hideouts and destroyed their structures and […]
A Western coalition has called on the United Nations to formally investigate atrocities in Sudan. The decision comes one week after a Reuters report revealed the scope of genocide underway in Darfur since fighting began in April. “People are killed in their homes and the streets; women and girls are raped; hundreds of thousands […]