South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in The Roys Report On a recent Sunday morning, a dozen people congregated in a home in the Nyabisindu neighborhood of Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali to ponder their next steps after the government shuttered numerous churches for noncompliance with health and safety regulations. “We are appalled by […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Two Christian brothers in Pakistan were arrested and charged with blasphemy on Tuesday after they were accused of desecrating pages of the Quran, sources said. Tabish Shahid and Kalu Shahid, 18-year-old sons of Shahid Masih of Kalay Wala Tehsil, Kasur District, Punjab Province, were […]
Originally published in CBN The world is watching and waiting as NASA works to get two stranded astronauts home from space. We’re also seeing faith at work as the rescue effort proceeds. NASA Astronaut Barry Wilmore and test pilot Suni Williams should have returned from their mission weeks ago, but engine […]
Originally published in Christian Today Donald Trump has told tech billionaire Elon Musk that his close brush with death has made him even more of a believer than before. The Republican presidential hopeful survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month, when a lone shooter’s bullet […]
Authorities in Christian-majority Rwanda have closed more than 5 600 churches in the last month, on the grounds they did not comply with health and safety regulations, BBC News reports. Pentecostal congregations were the most affected by the closures, with 427 churches having operated in caves, BBC News said. In […]
Hundreds of Christian investors have signed onto letters sent to several of the largest retailers in the United States, urging them not to sell the chemical abortion drug mifepristone after the federal government loosened standards to allow the drug to be sold at retail pharmacies nationwide. More than 400 Christian […]
The contrast between the pro-Hamas mob outside the Capitol building and the prime minister’s address illustrated the stakes involved in the debate about Israel, writes Jonathan S Tobin, editor of JNS (Jerusalem News Syndicate) and writer of this op-ed about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic address in the United […]
Originally published in Crosswalk.com Former soccer star Roberto Firmino shared that he has been consecrated as a pastor of an Evangelical church in Brazil. Firmino, a former Liverpool striker, shared photos of the consecration ceremony at his founding church in Maceio on social media last month. “This church was BORN […]
In the Gospel of Matthew 3:8, the word of God, tells us that we must bear fruit worthy of repentance. Once we become Christians, we cannot continue to live like we did before — there must be a change in our lives. In South Africa, we have recently completed the […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News A 14-year-old Catholic girl in Islamabad, Pakistan, has been kidnapped from her parents’ home by a local Islamist who forced her to “marry” him, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Khalid Masih, a Catholic sanitation worker, told MSN that local butcher Haider Ali kidnapped his […]