South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Michael Foust — Originally published in Christian Headlines A Chinese government agency last week fined a Christian man R49 400 ($2,870) for holding an online Bible study it says violated a new anti-religion law. The man, Zhang Wenli, lives in Yunnan province and was contacted August 11 by the […]
Originally published in Fox News He’s not a third-party presidential candidate up for election in November, but thousands across the country are putting up “Jesus 2020” yard signs. More than 5 000 signs have shipped out to California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and other states from a campaign that […]
Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a peace agreement on Thursday to begin the process of normalising relations between the two Middle Eastern countries, in part brokered by US President Donald Trump and his administration. The deal between the two nations was brokered largely by President Trump and is […]
Originally published in Fox News Hundreds of Christians in Seattle in the US Pacific Northwest turned out on Monday in the area formerly dubbed Capitol Hill Organised Protest, or CHOP, and were confronted by “violent protesters” who flashed knives, shouted obscenities at local Black pastors and hailed Satan, according to […]
News summary by Mindy Belz, senior editor of World France is taking a lead among Western nations, with the United States making tentative (my take) offers of help in the wake of Tuesday’s catastrophic explosion in Beirut. The official death toll stands at 137, with more than 5,000 injured and at least […]
Originally published in CBN News The American Journal of Psychiatry says it got it wrong when it came to analysing the numbers in a large study of transgender patients undergoing sex-reassignment surgery. Last fall, the journal published the results of the study and found the surgeries improved patients’ mental health. […]
Originally published in CBN News A life-size statue of the late evangelist Billy Graham is scheduled to replace a statue of a white supremacist in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall next year. Religion News Service (RNS) reports a North Carolina legislative committee endorsed a 2 foot model of the statue […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Rioters carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs threw Bibles into a fire in front of the federal courthouse in Portland and burned an American flag, leaving bystanders wondering what that act of arson had to do with protesting against police brutality. “People began starting a […]
Originally published in CBN News It started with a van full of paint cans on the streets of New York outside the Black Lives Matter mural in Midtown Manhattan. And then Bevelyn Beatty began her task, dropping to her knees with paint in-hand yelling, “They don’t care about black lives, […]
By Brandon Showalter — Originally published in The Christian Post Worshippers took to praising Jesus in the streets of central London on a double-decker bus over the weekend in an effort to awaken the church. Singers from what is known as Worship The King streamed the worship from the top […]