South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Jerusalem Post Isis-linked extremists are reportedly beheading children in Mozambique, the BBC claimed on Wednesday. The global jihadist movement has largely been defeated in the Middle East, but the genocidal Islamist extremism that it once sought to bring to Iraq and Syria is now being carried out in […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News Christians are being encouraged to pray for South Sudan as the UN has warned the country is facing “its highest levels of food insecurity and malnutrition” since it gained its independence in January 2011. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has […]
FOUR archbishops and 34 bishops of the Anglican Communion have signed an open letter demanding that exploratory oil drilling be stopped in northern Namibia. A Canadian firm, ReconAfrica, has been granted rights by the Namibian government to drill wells to search for oil and gas in the Kavango Basin, an area that […]
Originally published in Uganda Christian News Around East Africa, multitides are sharing tributes to Tanzania’s president John Pombe Magufuli who passed away at age 61. He died on Wednesday from “heart complications” at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan, the vice-president of Tanzania said in an address on state television. She […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Eritrea has freed 21 female Christian prisoners but the country’s forces stand accused of attacking churches in the troubled Tigray region of neighbouring Ethiopia. The women, all reportedly young mothers, had been held in an island prison on the Red Sea since last August. […]
The terrorist insurgency in northern Mozambique is not just a Mozambican problem but is a Southern African regional emergency that cannot be ignored by governments of the region, says the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa (FOCCISA) in a statement released this week. According to the statement FOCCISA has […]
Originally published in Baptist Press A surge in school kidnappings in northwestern Nigeria is blamed loosely on bandits rather than clearly defined Islamic terrorist groups, according to news reports, but puts Christians at greater risk of harm than Muslims. At least one Christian student was killed in a recent spate […]
A multi-aged, multinational and multi-denominational army of women prayer warriors joined ranks last Saturday in a second Africa-wide vittual prayer connect hosted by Dr Fay Nqoloba, CEO of Warrior Woman of the Kingdom and Talitha Cumi Foundation this year. Following on a general Africa prayer connect on January 30, this event was […]
Julita Kok is once again handing the steering wheel over to Jesus — this time on a road trip with God through Namibia. Read Episode 1 of her weekly reports here. Jesus take the wheel SA series And here I am on my way to Namibia feeling so inadequate for […]
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has warned that the country is on the brink of collapse, considering ongoing security and other crises in the country The warning came on Wednesday as bandits killed 18 in Kaduna and Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State confirmed the killing of 10 […]