South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
By George Thomas — Originally published in CBN News Muslim terror groups are launching attacks across several African nations. Foremost is Nigeria, where tens of thousands of Christians have died as part of what human rights activists call a Christian genocide across the continent. Nigeria’s Army recently released a poster […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News Christian relief charities and other humanitarian organisations have written a joint letter to Secretary General of United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, urging international assistance for Eritrean refugees in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. A violent conflict in the northern Ethiopian region has been ongoing […]
Originally published in CBN News Islamic extremists in northern Uganda killed a Christian pastor after he compared Christianity and Islam in a radio broadcast on October 31. Morning Star News (MSN), a nonprofit persecution watchdog, reports David Omara, 64, the pastor of the Christian Church Center and a well-known radio preacher […]
Armed Fulani killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria last Friday (November 6) and the next day kidnapped seven persons, including five daughters of a church pastor, according to a local advocacy group. Surviving witnesses in Kaduna state’s Dande village, part of Kasaya in Chikun County, described the killers as armed […]