South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Justin Brierly — Originally published in Charisma Magazine A quick Internet search for the term “post-truth” in news outlets this past week yields hundreds of thousands of responses, showing its growing pervasiveness since first being named Oxford Dictionary’s International Word of the Year in 2016. The proliferation of half-truths, […]
By Jonathan Feldstein —Originally published in Charisma News Wait, what? Jews and Christians can pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Why is that news? At the conclusion of the 1967 Six Day War, Israel negotiated a cease fire with the Arab countries that had gone to war against it. […]
By Dr Rex Rogers — Originally published in CBN News In Afghanistan’s arena of fear, the children of Kabul are asking a remarkable question: “Is Jesus here now? Can we meet Him?” In their present tribulation, the children and youth of this shell-shocked nation are looking for hope – and […]
Originally published by Barnabas Fund Christians who remain in Afghanistan are at risk of being hunted down and killed by the Taliban now that the Islamist group has regained control of the country and, on September 7, announced the formation of a new government. The Christians of Afghanistan are first-generation converts […]
The world mourned this week after learning that Dr David Yonggi Cho — pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea — died on September 14. Known as a visionary leader who taught his followers to change the world through prayer, Dr Cho was hospitalized for more […]
Welcome to Team Talk — our Spring edition. I cannot believe that it is September already and that we have entered the last four months of another year of great testing. I can only but be grateful for the Lord’s hand upon me and my family. He has protected us, […]
Adcocate Nadene Badenhorst legal counsel to Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) unpacks the implications for religious speech arising from the recent ‘Qwelane judgment’ in the Constitutional Court On July 30 the Constitutional Court handed down a unanimous judgment in the controversial and long-awaited case of Jon Qwelane versus the SA Human […]
Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network sounds the alarm about a Constitutional Court judgment which he says threatens the constitutional freedoms of South African citzens The July 30 judgment by Judge Majiedt of the Constitutional Court found journalist Jon Qwelane guilty of hate speech for an article in 2008 calling for […]
Welcome to our “Women’s Month edition of Team Talk. In my humble opinion we should not just celebrate women one month out of the year but rather every month. Especially in sports. We have had the absolute privilege of seeing some of the most amazing female athletes compete in all […]
Write it. Post it. Will it arrive at its destination? Opportunity knocked on my door to write letters during the Covid pandemic in the year 2020. I set out eagerly making cards and sending love to those for whom I could find postal addresses. I stored the letters in an […]