South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Authors document one of the world’s most under-reported stories Book Review by World Watch Monitor PERSECUTED: THE GLOBAL ASSAULT ON CHRISTIANS by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilber and Nina Shea (Nashville USA: Thomas Nelson, 2013) This is a book designed to show that “Christians are the single most widely persecuted religious […]
Originally published in Christian Cinema.Com Production is set to begin on the first evangelistic silent feature film since sound was added to picture. “The Good Book” is the story of a New Testament that finds its way into the hands of seven strangers and provides hope during their struggles. “The […]
Book review by Andre Viljoen LIMITLESS: Devotions for a Ridiculously Good Life by Nic Vujicic Limbless Nick Vujicic does not just talk about overcoming odds, he epitomises it. And so, who better to write a book of encouraging devotions than this evangelist, author, and inspirational speaker who has overcome his […]
Book Review by Andre Viljoen Truth Stained Lies by Terri BlackstockGenre: Christian thriller Prolific Christian writer Terri Blackstock’s Truth Stained Lies is a satisfying page-turner that will be enjoyed by a broad cross-section of readers. The story kicks off as former lawyer and investigative murder trial blogger Cathy Cramer receives […]
A young Port Elizabeth musician whose rap song ‘Genoeg is Genoeg’ was a rallying cry in a 2011 campaign against drug abuse and gangsterism in the suburb of Helenvale is working on his first rap album. Earlier this year Jean-Mikyle Roos a Gr12 scholar at Andrew Rabbie High School received […]
Christian music veteran Carman has raised more than $233,000 to fund his first independent album in a decade. Christian music veteran Carman, who was diagnosed with incurable cancer earlier this year, has raised more than $233,000 to fund his first independent album in a decade. He credited kickstarter.com, a “crowd-funding” […]
Home, South Africa’s first ‘deaf movie’ — a 60 minute feature film performed by deaf actors using sign language — is launching nationwide this weekend. A contemporary adaptation of the Biblical story, The Prodigal Son, the film is being screened at churches throughout South Africa from Friday, May 24 to […]
Originally published in INContext Ministries’ World In Motion, Issue 76 The pan-Arab news giant is laying the groundwork for the launch of al-Jazeera America after its purchase of Current TV, a struggling US cable channel. Adel Iskandar, a professor of communication at Georgetown University and co-author of a 2002 book on the […]
Is it a theatre? Is it a coffee shop? Is it a church? The brightly coloured ‘Artuo Teatro’ building in Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth keeps passers-by guessing. For musician, worship leader, ‘not-a-dominee’, Nagel Myburgh Artuo is indeed a unique blend of theatre, coffee shop and church. It is a ministry […]
‘God was in control of song’ A little bit of music history was made at the 19th MTN South African Music Awards at Sun City on Saturday night when for the first time ever a gospel album, Kulungile Baba, by Sifiso Ncwane, scooped the prestigious Record of the Year […]