South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Morning Star News As Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, sentenced to death for leaving Islam, gave birth early yesterday morning (Tuesday, May 27, 2014) in prison, another Christian woman in Sudan has been jailed for “apostasy,” sources said. Ibrahim’s second child was born at about 3:30 a.m. in the […]
Originally published in Times Live A South African court will rule on the future of two four-year-old girls who were accidentally switched the day they were born and have been raised by each other’s biological mother, officials involved in the case said today (Wednesday, May 28, 2014). One of the […]
A call has gone out to intercessors, church leaders and members of the body of Christ to unite in 21 days of prayer and fasting from Monday, May 26, for the situation at the platinum mines at Marikana near Rustenburg where a protracted strike is resulting in massive losses for […]
An alarming number of children are raped every day in South Africa. And tragically the deep pain and shame of these childhood experiences launches many young people into lives blighted by substance abuse and sexual bondage. Nina Blount, 40, was sexually abused by family members from the age of 4 […]
Moves are afoot to bring the Mighty Men Conference (MMC) back to the Western Cape which held it inaugural and last MMC in Paarl in 2011. After the 2011 MMC Committee dissolved, several committees have been formed to take up the baton but there have been no further Mighty Men […]
Port Elizabeth restoration ministry, A Fighting Chance (AFC), is hosting a Drug Dependence Seminar at Father’s House Church, PE, on Saturday (May 24, 2014) to equip addicts and their families to break the cycle of drug dependence. Drug addicts and their family members generally don’t know what to do about […]
Christian leaders Michael Cassidy, Moss Ntlha and Andrew Selley have called pastors in South Africa to an urgent meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday 29 May 2014 to inform them of the escalating threat to religious freedom and the autonomy of the Church in South Africa. At the meeting pastors will […]
[notice]UK-based South African-born journalist Charles Gardner reports from the At the Crossroads conference in Jerusalem[/notice]A British-based Iranian woman brought up as a devoted Muslim has told how she became a Christian — and was reconciled with her husband — after an encounter with the God of the Bible. She heard His voice […]
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Call for prayer for Christian community in Nigeria Compiled by reports from Fox News , Worthy News/Reuters, Open Doors SA At least 118 people were killed and dozens more were injured in back-to-back car bomb blasts in the crowded business district of the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday afternoon […]