Originally published in Premier Christian News Christians are being deliberately driven from their homes in certain regions of the world, according to the persecution charity Open Doors. Its new report, called Church on the Run, says that governments, armed extremist groups and in some cases even families are trying to […]
Opinion
Exploring the Queen’s faith through her own words
Originally published in Christian Today On the occasion of the platinum jubilee (75 years) celebration of Queen Elizabeth 11’s reign, author Michael Green shares how her faith in Jesus has shaped her life Do anything really well in almost any sphere of life – run a business, run a marathon, […]
If we are always defending are we losing? — Philip Rosenthal
Business people sometimes ask me whether we ever win — since we are always defending against new threats? It can be depressing, when the government introduces one anti-family, anti-life, anti-business policy after another — as soon as we have fought off one, then there is another one. So are we […]
A Christian view of the coming Temple — Christine Darg
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post Since Israel re-captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, the Jewish state has maintained a fragile religious balance, and the Temple Mount is indeed the most divisive real estate in the world. Jewish activists for decades have been leading efforts to […]
Olive branch offered to government as electoral reform deadline approaches
Dr Michael Louis chairman of One South Africa urges government to drop its flawed Electoral Bill now and join hands to achieve optimal voting system In a month’s time, the Constitutional Court-ordered deadline given to Parliament to change the laws that govern our voting system at national and provincial level […]
The divided future of Islam — Andrew Richards
Andrew Richards, researcher and director for the Institute for Strategic Foresight, foresees an opportunity for the Church arising from trends in the Islamic world The Islamic divide can be viewed from different perspectives. Firstly, a physical divide within the religion itself between its two main factions, Sunni and Shia. This […]
Heidi Baker declares From Mozambique: ‘You are Lord over all storms’
By Heidi Baker — Originally published in Charisma Magazine Since the last time I wrote, it feels like the world’s storms have only grown stronger and more chaotic. There are more wars in the news. There are cyclones at home in Mozambique. There is spiritual shaking and tremendous fear in […]
Draft health regulations deadline ends but concerns remain
Proposed measures consolidate unaccountable power in a single minister The deadline for submitting comments on the draft health regulations ended at midnight on Sunday April 24, but grave concerns about their application and future implementation remain. The DearSA online platform alone registered over 283 000 individual submissions with the Department […]
EDITORIAL: Last week to have your say on health regulations that threaten your freedoms
South Africans have until April 15 to comment on draft health regulations which, if passed, could effectively plunge our country into a permanent state of disaster in which the health minister can drastically limit your constitutional freedoms without any parliamentary oversight. One positive that is coming out of this is […]
How a missionary used Bitcoin to transform a town, then a nation
By Jimmy Song — Originally published in The Christian Post A few years ago, a missionary decided to do a small and seemingly inconsequential experiment in El Zonte, a beach town in El Salvador. The plan was to get the community to adopt Bitcoin so that they wouldn’t have to […]