South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Brother Andrew, whose clandestine Bible deliveries behind the Cold War Iron Curtain earned him the title of “God’s smuggler” and who launched a global organisation supporting persecuted Christians, died yesterday at his home in Harderwijk, Netherlands. Brother Andrew, whose given name was Andrew van der Bijl, was 94 years old. […]
I just want to speak the name of Jesus Over every heart and every mind‘Cause I know there is peace within Your presence I speak JesusI just want to speak the name of Jesus ‘Til every dark addiction starts to breakDeclaring there is hope and there is freedomI speak Jesus‘Cause Your name is power […]
Forty-five worshippers were kidnapped when jihadists stormed a church in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, Sahara Reporters said. Monday’s attack took place during a service at the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Kasuwa quarters of Kasuwan Magani Town, Kaduna State, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) told reporters. In a statement, […]
On Saturday September 17 South African NGO Heartlines, in collaboration with the SABC, unveiled a new film series called Heartlines Fathers Matter that uses the power of story to support the positive and active role of fathers and men in children’s lives. The second of the six short films in […]
In the densely-populated, poor and crime-ridden Gauteng township of Diepsloot, God spoke to the heart of a senior city academic, Dr Darlingtong Mushongera, to use music to uplift people and win souls for the Kingdom of God. “My prayer to God is to use music to draw them closer to […]
Update on the Hate Speech Bill by Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network Yesterday, the Department of Justice updated Parliament on their responses to submissions for the Hate Speech Bill. They are proposing up to five years jail sentence for what they call “hate speech”. Currently, the former leader of the […]
“You cannot make this stuff up. So, how can we not then have a great expectation for God to do a mighty thing? So, said Vareena Swihart of Dayton Ohio, USA after telling me an extraordinary life story that has presently led her to travel to South Africa to attend […]
I have been much inspired of late by precious new insights into the extraordinary life of Joseph, the Jewish patriarch, which clearly point to the role played by Jesus some 2 000 years later. And I am indebted, in part, to an excellent Zoom talk to supporters of the Church’s […]
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 […]
This week I watched the funeral service for Queen Elizabeth II at the majestic Westminster Cathedral. You probably watched it too. I was impressed with the imaginative choice of a standard evening hymn as the opening congregational song for her funeral — and that vast congregation knew how to sing […]