South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Open Doors publishes 50 worst persecutors list Persecution of Christians in Africa enormously increased in 2012, according to the Open Doors 2013 World Watch List of the 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Countries on the African continent sharply increased on the World Watch List, due […]
[notice]Here are links to 12, memorable good news stories — one for each month — that appeared in Gateway News in 2012. [/notice] JANUARY Irish builders making school dream come true – Cheerful Irish volunteers defy a PE heatwave to help local Christian project make a difference in education. FEBRUARY […]
Originally published in News 24 Mainstream Anglican Christians in Zimbabwe are returning to their cathedral after a lockout of more than five years staged by an excommunicated, breakaway bishop who claimed loyalty to President Robert Mugabe’s party and used loyalist police to keep people away. Worshippers from across the country […]
Originally published in God Reports Margaret Cooke felt numb. She could not believe what she was seeing. For more than a half-century, Cooke, 78, had prayed that her mother, Lula Wallace, would accept the Gospel. Now, five months shy of her 109th birthday, Wallace — still in her wheelchair — […]
From A World In Motion, Issue 66 — INContext Minististries 1. The eight-day war between Israel and Hamas The conflict between Israel and Hamas that lasted eight days resulted in the deaths of more than 160 Palestinians and at least five Israelis. Hamas is a militant Palestinian party that, since […]
Open Doors will release its 2013 World Watch List of 50 countries that are the worst persecutors of Christians on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, during a press conference in Washington, DC. “The annual World Watch List has raised awareness of the plight of persecuted Christians for many years,” says Open […]
Thousands of Christians are marching on cities in Zimbabwe next week in protest against the corruption that is keeping millions in poverty. Leaders of the country’s three largest Christian bodies have signed a letter urging churches to rise up against corruption during a day of action coinciding with the global […]
Originally published in Christian Post Cairo officials ruled Wednesday that seven Egyptian Christians in the US and Canada be sentenced, in absentia, to death for their participation in the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” film, which was published to YouTube in September and resulted in riots and protests among Muslims in […]
Building a Christian school in the Angolan bush-bush is a far cry from the broken and worldly life that missionary Juan van Tonder lived before he encountered Jesus. But activities like this have become normal for the former businessman who left Cape Town on a mission outreach to Pomfret, a […]
Report compiled from The Algemeiner, Ynet News, CBN News and Christian Post A Tel Aviv bus was blown up this morning in a terror attack that injured 21, 3 of them seriously. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack took place at around noon Israel time, near the Kirya […]