South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Baptist Press New evidence of marijuana’s negative effect on intelligence and, yet, its increasing use by teenagers shows the need to educate young people and prevent the drug’s legalization, a Southern Baptist ethics leader says. Individuals who use marijuana during their teenage years have an average drop […]
Shinya Yamanaka, fresh from the Nobel Prize for medicine, states that science and ethics must go hand in hand. Interviewed by the Mainichi Shimbun after the award, he said: “I would like to invite ethical experts as teachers at my laboratory and work to guide iPS [induced pluripotent stem] cell […]
Approximately 550 jubilant anti-abortion protesters braved relentless, pouring rain to take part in the National March for Life in Umhlanga, Durban on Sunday (October 7). [EasyGallery id=’nalmarchforlife’] Pro-lifers of all ages walked, singing and making declarations for 4 km around Gateway Mall, Umhlanga, at times stopping traffic while they crossed […]
A South African Christian pro-life group says there is a “desperate need” for united action against abortion which has resulted in the legal killing of more than 1,1 million babies in the country since February 1997. “Maybe, never before has there been such great a need for Pro-lifers to stand […]
Studies support abstinence education Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi released the statistics — a total of 77 771 legal abortions were performed in South Africa in 2011, a 31 per cent increase since 2010! In 2010, the Health Department said, 59 447 abortions were carried out! Although the new statistics illustrate […]
Originally published in Hurriyet Daily News (via Contact Online Blog) Spain’s conservative government plans to ban abortions, overturning a two-year-old law allowing terminations on demand, a justice ministry source told Reuters, in a move likely to galvanize support among its core voters. The previous Socialist government passed a law in […]
More than 2 400 viewers responded to an advertisement offering help to women in crisis pregnancies, which aired over 50 times on Black Entertainment Television (a US cable network) during summer 2012. “Women deserve to know about the compassionate help that is available to them, and this campaign accomplished just […]
Originally published in news 24 The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban marijuana shops outright until it has clearer guidance from the state’s highest court, after being unable to rein in the hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up across the nation’s second largest city. Doctors […]
[notice]LEONORA HAMMOND (pictured above with her son Christopher) writes: “We have four children; our third, Christopher, was born with chronic renal failure. I became a kidney donor for my son, and 8 months later I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I am hoping my story will be an encouragement to […]
From Africa Christian Action Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for homosexuality to be decriminalised to help tackle HIV. His comments come in an analysis in The Lancet journal of why incidence of the virus continues to grow among men who have sex with men. Dr Tutu said anti-homosexuality laws would […]