Regardless of pro-pot activists’ claims in the USA that legalisation of dagga (cannabis) will reduce the underground sale of the drug, it is actually increasing, says Doctors For Life (DFL) in a media release dated June 20. In the state of Colorado, the black market cannabis, which many expected to disappear […]
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Toddler saw Jesus before angels carried her home
Originally posted in God Reports No one guessed little Giselle had a heart problem until a routine doctor’s check-up at seven months old. But her short, joy-filled life ended with visions of Jesus and heaven, a comfort to those who loved her most. “I don’t know why Giselle was born […]
Nigeria tops Christian persecution violence list: new Open Doors report
By Open Doors The World Watch List (WWL) Research team of Open Doors International has released a Top 10 Violence List of countries in which Christians have experienced the most violent incidents for their faith in Jesus Christ. The World Watch Top 10 Violence List, which is based on persecution […]
WEA urges churches to celebrate World Refugee Sunday
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) encourages Christians and churches around the world to remember and pray for refugees and forcibly displaced people on World Refugee Sunday, designated this year to fall on June 15 and 22. The WEA and the Refugee Highway Partnership (RHP) have prepared useful resources for local […]
Christians to protest outside Sudanese Embassy in Pretoria on Tuesday
Christians plan to picket in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Pretoria on Tuesday (June 3) afternoon in protest against a death sentence ruling by a Sudanese court against a young Christian mother and medical doctor, Meriam Ibrahim, 27, for refusing to convert to Islam. Ibrahim who gave birth to […]
Second woman in jail for ‘apostasy’ as Meriam Ibrahim gives birth in Sudanese prison
Originally published in Morning Star News As Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, sentenced to death for leaving Islam, gave birth early yesterday morning (Tuesday, May 27, 2014) in prison, another Christian woman in Sudan has been jailed for “apostasy,” sources said. Ibrahim’s second child was born at about 3:30 a.m. in the […]
Korkie still alive — foundation
Originally published in News 24 Sources in Yemen have confirmed that kidnapped Pierre Korkie is still alive, the Gift of the Givers Foundation said on Thursday. “About 10 days ago we received confirmation from more than one source that Pierre Korkie was seen alive together with a UN aid worker […]
Buchan back from US Mighty Men mission
Farmer evangelist Angus Buchan is back in South Africa after a week in America where he spoke to various groups and met church and business leaders in preparation for the third Mighty Men Conference USA (MMC USA) in the Bridgestone Arena, Nashville in November. He concluded his US visit with […]
Visiting Chinese Christians ministering in PE
A leading evangelist, a superstar actress, and a peasant girl whose Holy Spirit-inspired hymns are sung all over China, are among a team of Chinese Christians who will be ministering and sharing their testimonies in Port Elizabeth on Monday, May 26 and Tuesday, May 27. The Monday night session, which […]
Jesus reconciles Muslim couple
[notice]UK-based South African-born journalist Charles Gardner reports from the At the Crossroads conference in Jerusalem[/notice]A British-based Iranian woman brought up as a devoted Muslim has told how she became a Christian — and was reconciled with her husband — after an encounter with the God of the Bible. She heard His voice […]