South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Voice of the Martyrs In Uzbekistan’s conservative Muslim culture, women can almost go unnoticed, leading hard lives of unending work around the home or farm. So when visitors appear, especially during the long, cold winters, women are usually glad to take a break and drink tea with […]
Originally published in Open Doors It’s very rare that we receive direct communication from our family in North Korea. Occasionally, we get stories from believers in Open Doors’ safe houses in China, yet rarely are we able to read precious words straight from the mouths of our brothers and sisters […]
Originally published in Baptist Press Only a few decades ago, the Bugkalot people were one of the fiercest tribes in the Philippines, known for beheading their enemies. No outsider who contacted the tribe survived, and the people around them lived terrified of them. Then, in the 1950s, the Gospel slowly […]
Originally published in Christian News Pakistan Church leaders have said the government is doing very little in response to the flooding crisis and have renewed their urgent appeals to help the millions affected by the catastrophe. Over a third of the country is completely submerged with millions of people displaced […]
Originally published in CBN News In a first-ever event, evangelist Franklin Graham preached a message on God’s love last Saturday night to thousands of people in Mongolia. More than 17 300 people attended the “Festival of Joy” in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, and hundreds of people made decisions to […]
Originally published in Church Leaders The wife and son of an evangelist, the sole Christian convert in his extended family in majority Hindu India, helped neighbors burn him to death because of his faith, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported Aug. 23. Police described the crime as a family matter and refused […]
Originally published in Christian News A faith-based legal advocacy organisation has released a new documentary sharing the story of a Christian couple who escaped persecution in Pakistan. Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, were accused of blasphemy and had been on a death row sentence for seven years before they escaped […]
Originally published in CBN News An international persecution watchdog and at least one Christian media executive believe Christianity could grow exponentially in Afghanistan, with the bold proclamation emerging on the one-year anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover of the predominately Islamic nation after the Biden Administration’s much-maligned withdrawal. Release International, a […]
Originally published in Mission Network News On Sunday morning, an explosion shook a street in Kabul, Afghanistan. The United States had just conducted a drone strike that killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, a man who helped plan the 9/11 attacks. The CIA carried out the operation. According to officials, Zawahiri […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A court in Pakistan’s Punjab province has upheld the death sentence for two Christian brothers charged with posting blasphemous content on a blog that, they maintain, they never created. The Lahore High Court upheld the death sentence of Qaisar and Amoon Ayub, who were […]