South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Charisma News Ryan Ries, co-founder of The Whosoevers, a cause-based movement set out to build and strengthen at-risk youth, tells his story of overcoming a life filled with pain, sorrow and emptiness from drug, alcohol and porn addiction in a new film produced by I Am Second. At […]
Originally published by International Christian Concern International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that two nuns, Sister Miskintah and Sister Atur Joseph, and three orphans have been released after being held for 17 days near Mosul, Iraq. The five went missing on June 28th from Mosul and were held until being released […]
Originally published in Christian Today Impris0ned Chinese pastor Zhang Shaojie’s family has escaped China and arrived safely in the United States this week. The family has been harassed by Chinese officials since Zhang’s sentencing to 12 years on July 4 for fraud and “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.” […]
Tutu supports euthanasia Originally published in Christian Today Archbishop Justin Welby has joined over 20 other British faith leaders in rallying against Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill, which will have its second reading in parliament on Friday (July 18, 2014). A joint statement, written from a “deep human concern”, warns […]
Originally published in Jerusalem Post After days of waiting and deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night directed the IDF to send ground troops into Gaza to strike the terror tunnels into Israel. Signaling that the initial phase of the ground attack would be limited, a statement put out […]
Originally published in Charisma News The Church of England voted on Monday (July 14, 2014) to allow women to become bishops, a historic decision which overturns centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the issue. Two years ago, a similar proposal failed narrowly due to […]
Displaying opposite spirit to Arab-Israeli conflict “Dancing together with Arabs? Laughing together with them? These are the people I hated my whole life,” says Chava, a Messianic Jewish girl who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Israel. Chava was part of a three-day gathering where she met with […]
Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission has threatened to take legal action against a Christian-run bakery after it refused to bake a cake with the slogan “Support Gay Marriage.” The owners of Asher Baking Co., based in Newtownabbey, said they were unable to produce the cake as this would conflict with their […]
Originally published in Gospel Herald Emma Czornobaj may be facing life in prison for causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and his daughter after parking her car on a highway to ensure that a group of ducklings could safely cross the street. According to the police report, in 2010, Andre […]
Originally published in Life Site News A major pro-life rally in Belfast on Saturday heard from parents whose children had life-limiting disorders and who say that better support for families, not abortion, is the answer when children are diagnosed with severe disabilities in the womb. Three mothers of babies with […]