South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published by World Watch Monitor It’s been called the “greatest crisis on the African continent“. The UN’s World Food Programme in mid-June warned that hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds to feed them. It needs $172-million (R2.3-billion) to […]
Originally published in Christianity Today A day after a Religion News Service interview portrayed retired pastor and author Eugene Peterson as shifting to endorse same-sex marriage, the evangelical leader retracted his comment and upheld the traditional Christian stance instead. “To clarify, I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man […]
Rugby star Jamie Jones-Buchanan has picked up a crock of medals in a glittering Super League career spanning half a lifetime — but Jesus is clearly his greatest treasure. The second-rower with Leeds Rhinos, for whom he first played in 1999, is now in his 18th season with the Rugby […]
A monthly column bringing you frontline testimonies of what God is stirring up across the globe. By international revivalist from South Africa Lindy-Ann Hopley of Beautiful Witness Ministries. What have a cutting tool and an anime necklace got to do with Jesus? Read on to join Lindy-Ann in her latest […]
Originally published in CBN News The former Special Forces soldier who ran more than 100m under ISIS fire in Iraq to rescue a little girl said God’s Word inspires him to risk his life to save others. Dave Eubank has become famous for the video and pictures of his heroic […]
The annual Bonnaroo music festival in an open field in Manchester, Tennessee, draws tens of thousands of people from all of the US for four days of music, drugs, drunkenness and debauchery, says Larry Tomczak, in an article in Charisma News. Not exactly the sort of place for Christians to […]
The Africa-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) will be launched at the 2017 Africa Leadership Summit(ALS) in Jerusalem in August, to strengthen business links between the two nations. The vision for the AICC was birthed at the 2015 ALS and a think-tank team has met several times since to work on the […]
The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few. The Kingdom lost one of its most fearless labourers in the Middle East last week, Antony Simon. Many South Africans who have visited Israel may have had a bible handed to them by the evangelist or even served on his team. […]
Sophie is a South African working mom who recently became a Christian. But her abusive, gangster ex-boyfriend continues to disrupt and endanger her life. She says her faith is helping her to fight back. But it is hard. This is her story. It’s a reality too many South African women […]
Originally published in Urban Christian News A robot ‘preacher’ that beams lights from its hands and can give automated blessings to the faithful has been launched in the town that gave fame to Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Five hundred years after Luther published the Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg, […]