South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Possibly among the most significant events in church history was witnessed in an English cathedral on Sunday May 8th. The Church of England chose to mark the 800th anniversary of the notorious Synod of Oxford with a strongly Hebraic service of repentance for historic anti-Semitism. And it took place, appropriately, […]
Originally published in Church Times The Australian General Synod of the Anglican Church, meeting in Queensland, has failed to pass a formal statement brought by the diocese of Sydney, which sought to declare that both same-sex marriage and same-sex marriage blessings were contrary “to the teaching of Christ and the faith, ritual, […]
Andrew Richards, researcher and director for the Institute for Strategic Foresight, foresees an opportunity for the Church arising from trends in the Islamic world The Islamic divide can be viewed from different perspectives. Firstly, a physical divide within the religion itself between its two main factions, Sunni and Shia. This […]
Originally published in The Christian Post A senior associate pastor at the Bellevue Christian Center in Nebraska, USA, who had been waiting for months to find a donor on the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s kidney transplant list, cried tears of joy before his congregation as he revealed their lead […]
By Gerda Potgieter FEBC Ukraine radio hosts are not allowing the war with Russian invaders to stop them from sharing the Good News of Jesus through radio programmes and direct contact with listeners. One such host, Inna, tells of a female listener who called the radio for help after a […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced an Iranian-Armenian Christian man to 10 years in prison for establishing a house church, which the judge called “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam,” according to reports. Branch 26 of the Revolutionary […]
As I write this letter to you, I am feeling like I’m right in the middle, I’m getting my one arm pulled the one side and my other arm pulled the other side, because I am rejoicing for the rain that has fallen in the Karoo and in the Northern […]
Gateway News spoke to author and missionary Ashley Cloete about his new book What God Joined Together Starting next week, we will be posting the book on Gateway News as a chapter-by-chapter series. Ashley, I interviewed you about your book Revival Seeds Germinate two years ago. You noted that it […]
Imagine with me life as a Ukrainian mother, or any other global wartime mother, or a little closer to home, hear the heart-rending words of a woman affected by the floods in KwaZulu-Natal: “It was absolutely traumatic, some mornings I woke up 3am and I’m in tears thinking of the […]
The Kairos Network (KN) — an association of Dutch Reformed Church members committed to preserving biblical truth — had “historic meetings” in the past week with “key players in the reformed world” in SA and abroad, said KN chairman Dr Anton Knoetze in a press release. According to the press […]