South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published by World Watch Monitor Obscured by Boko Haram’s headlines, violence has also raged further south, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt: a less reported, years-long campaign which experts now believe has been responsible for more deaths than Boko Haram. Perspectives on Nigeria’s Fulani crisis Nigeria — when Fulani herdsmen and […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Many experts on Nigeria now believe that violence across the Middle Belt, which World Watch Monitor has reported at length, has been responsible for more deaths than Boko Haram. As Emmanuel Akinwotu wrote last year in the New Statesman, the conflict – between indigenous settled […]
President JF Kennedy once remarked that ‘when written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis; is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.’ Every crisis, is, at the same time, an opportunity. Listening to CNN and the reports on Hurricane Irma is the example of a both […]
According to AGRI SA, “2015 was declared the driest year in South Africa, in over a century.” Farming is a long-term investment, therefore it is understandable how recovering from a drought, particularly one of significant proportions, is no quick fix. Farmers who experienced hardship in 2015 continue to struggle as […]
A monthly column by farmer, preacher and writer for Jesus, Angus Buchan I read a beautiful article in the Scripture Union Devotional where the writer reminded me that “we are not the owners of the land, but purely the managers.” I thought that was such a lovely reminder. The devil […]
Originally published in Charisma News In 1980, at age 59, Dois Rosser Jr sat at his kitchen table, staring at two columns he had drawn on a piece of paper. One was labelled “Kingdom Business”, the other, “Secular Business.” For years, Rosser had wanted to involve himself in ministry, but […]
Originally published in Foreign Policy Do we want to be the generation that stood by as Christians disappeared almost entirely from the ancient homelands they have occupied since the days of the New Testament? Will the Trump administration and this Congress let this historic and preventable tragedy happen on their […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Most of us have been through something that made us feel ugly. A break-up, an abuse, a loss, poverty, disappointment, depression, all manners of rejection … The list is vast — how we’re left feeling though, is universal. We’re left […]
Tshego Motaung considers God’s possible purpose in allowing President Jacob Zuma to survive yet another no-confidence debate. As the month of August draws to a close, one cannot help but reflect on the recent no confidence debate that took place in parliament earlier in the month. This debate stirred the […]
A call for you to rise up into a new way of being and living with God. Every so often a global kingdom project comes up that will impact many nations in a profound way. At Gateway News, we enjoy writing about South African and African news to share what […]