South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Christian legal watchdogs have issued a warning that the revised Hate Speech Bill which will be considered by a parliamentary committee tomorrow poses a serious threat to religious freedom. Michael Swain of Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) and Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network both warn that the Department […]
Compiled from reports in Nairobi Wire, All Africa and APA News Kenya’s president-elect William Ruto, 55. took to social media on Monday to welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold his election victory, attributing the decision to God. Just hours after the seven-judge bench unanimously dismissed a petition from his […]
Originally published in Missions Box Tens of thousands of people came together July 23 at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest in Hungary for a major worship event called This Is The Day. The goal was for believers to lift up the name of Jesus in a display of Christian unity […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines A Somali pastor of an underground fellowship in Kenya is still recovering from an infected wound after attacks on him, his wife and child for leaving Islam, he said. The 33-year-old pastor, who was still in pain this week as he received medical treatment for […]
Originally published in Worthy News Christians in Mozambique live in danger as al-Shabaab ISIS-affiliated Islamic insurgents continue to wreak terror, now causing the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the country to rise by 80 000, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Fighting an insurgency led by al-Shabaab since 2017, Mozambique’s […]
Originally published in Christian Today Dozens of bishops from South Sudan and Kenya have issued a desperate plea to the UK government as East Africa grapples with a spiralling hunger crisis. An open letter signed by over 40 bishops from South Sudan and Kenya appeals to the UK government to […]
Originally published in Honest Reporting Believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Bethlehem is revered in the Christian faith and attracts more than a million pilgrims every year who come to pray at the famous Church of the Nativity. Here, visitors queue daily by the hundreds to enter a […]
The final chapter in a serialisation of a fascinating new book by Cape Town missionary and author Ashley Cloete about love across the colour divide in the apartheid era. Each week we will publish a new chapter. YOU CAN ORDER THE E-BOOK VERISION AT https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1144423 or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1381P29 Three days after our church wedding, Rosemarie and […]
I have been immersed during recent months in a series of new books on the Holocaust. Fresh testimonies from people who experienced the sheer terror and trauma of those hellish days keep emerging into the cold light of day, even 77 years after the horror of the concentration camps was […]
Tables are one of the most significant places of human connection. We’re often most fully alive when sharing a meal around a table. We shouldn’t be surprised, then, to find that throughout the Bible, God has a way of showing up at tables. Jesus himself wanted to explain to his […]