South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Lifesite News In a peculiar reversal of roles, the Catholic president of Tanzania has advised the nation to trust in God when it comes to fears of COVID-19, while a number of bishops in the East African country have taken a different approach, urging people to adhere […]
Originally published in CBN News Islamic terrorists are launching violent attacks against people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa as innocent men, women, and children are being killed almost daily. In the past month, more than 100 people were murdered, and a majority of them were […]
Originally published in Uganda Christian News A Muslim mother in Obutete village, Agule County in Pallisa District, Uganda, has renounced Islam, after visions of Jesus in a life-changing dream. Mansitula Buliro, 45, was on January 13 preparing for Isha prayers with her husband when she had a vision of Jesus, she said. “During […]
Steven Lungu a leading African evangelist and former international team leader and CEO of African Enterprise passed away in Lilongwe, Malawi today from Covid-19 complications. The evangelist, whose powerful testimony of how God transformed him from a bitter freedom fighter to a global evangelist has touched multitudes of people around […]
Originally published in The Church Times Reports of a massacre of 750 people in the cathedral complex that reputedly houses the Ark of the Covenant have emerged from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Accounts have come from those who fled the town of Aksum and walked more than 200km to […]
Two senior Malawian cabinet ministers and two other senior political figures died today from Covid-19, the government said, reports The Jerusalem Post. The deaths followed a cabinet meeting and other gatherings attended by politicians over the Christmas period, but officials did not say where the victims were infected. Local Government […]
Originally published in World More than 300 boys kidnapped a week ago from a boarding school in northern Katsina state, Nigeria are free, state officials reported late yesterday. State governor Aminu Masari told local media that officials transported the 344 boys to the state capital to receive medical care before reuniting with […]
Originally published in Christianity Today Only one country was added this year to the US government’s official list of the world’s worst persecutors of religion: Nigeria. The West African nation – Africa’s most populous and divided roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims – has been plagued for years by rising […]
Originally published in UG Christian News “The greatest honour in my life is sharing my Jesus,” she says. An expectant Christian mother still proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ on streets in Uganda has caught the attention of several Christians. Evangelist Gorret Odama who is married to Apostle Tom Aita Odama, […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Suspected members of an insurgent jihadist group slaughtered 20 Christians in villages in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between Nov. 20 and Nov. 25, area sources said. The Islamic State-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected in the attacks […]