South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Obed Minchakpu — Compass Direct News JOS, Nigeria – Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here yesterday morning, killing at least one Christian girl and injuring dozens of […]
[notice]Pastor Afrika Mhlophe unmasks some realities about our nation — realities that the Church should be addressing.[/notice]The State of the Nation (SONA) address is meant to help mirror where we are as a nation but also act as pointer on where we are going. President Jacob Zuma’s latest address was […]
Media reports exposing the growing menace of human trafficking – mainly for prostitution – are emerging across the country. The warnings are clear – sex trafficking is a major threat in SA. On 17 Feb, KZN police busted a child-sex human trafficking ring in Point Road Durban rescuing 16 teenage girls, […]
Ex freedom fighter will join ex policeman and Oom Angus as speaker at Karoo MMC Douglas Baartman was transformed in the dark of night by the light of God from a revolutionary who was about to blow up a government building in the struggle against racial prejudice and oppression to […]
[notice]Mike Pothier, research coordinator of the Parliamentary Liaision Office (CPLO) of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, responds to today’s budget speech.[/notice]When we consider the mismanagement and incompetence that have led to today’s crisis in the Eurozone, with countries like Greece and Ireland on the brink of economic meltdown, and […]
The Justice Alliance of South Africa (Jasa) has been admitted as a friend of the court in a matter in which the Constitutional Court must decide on a High Court ruling against an amendment of the Films and Publications Act which requires magazines containing sexual conduct which undermines human dignity […]
[notice]A fortnightly column by Anna Heydenrych.[/notice] I was driving on the freeway on my way to a meeting the other day. As I neared my destination, I wasn’t concentrating and I took the wrong off-ramp. This resulted in me driving for 10 kilometres in the wrong direction. I regretted my […]
[notice]In its February 14 edition, liberal, secular weekly news magazine, Newsweek, ran a cover story about the alarming rise in violent persecution of Christians in a number of Muslim countries. The writer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim and now atheist, accuses the western media of a “conspiracy of silence” on […]
Originally published in INcontext Ministries The American Center for Law and Justice, focusing on constitutional and international law, said today it has received information that Iran may have issued an execution order for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who was sentenced to death because he refused to recant his Christian faith. The […]
Originally posted in LifeSiteNews.Com This year Ash Wednesday isn’t just the first day of the Christian penitential season of Lent, it is also the beginning of the largest ever 40 Days for Life campaign. In the past seven years hundreds of thousands of pro-life advocates have joined the campaign, thousands […]