While rebel forces are advancing on the Ethiopian capital, strict curfews and security sweeps are in place, and a nationwide state of emergency is in force, nothing can stop the power of the Gospel, says evangelist Tamryn Klintworth who is leading a series of evangelism crusades in the troubled nation. […]
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Call to support Miss SA under attack by anti-Israel ‘cyberbullies’
South African Friends of Israel have called on South Africans to express support for Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, who has been at the receiving end of hateful online attacks orchestrated by anti-Israel activists who don’t want her to compete in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel next month. In […]
ACDP teen vaccine hearing postponed
The Gauteng High Court today granted a request by the ACDP for a postponement in the hearing of its urgent application for an order to stop the rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations to children between the ages of 12 and 17, ACDP national executive committee member and attorney Bongani Luthuli said […]
Franklin Graham asks for prayer as he recovers from heart surgery for pericarditis
Originally published in CBN News. Evangelist Franklin Graham is recovering after successful heart surgery on Monday at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse ministry reports that he developed a disease called constrictive pericarditis which includes inflammation and hardening of the pericardium, the sac around the heart. The hardening compresses the heart and […]
Hillsong releases first new album since 2018: ‘These Same Skies’
Originally published in Aleteia. Hillsong Worship is back with their first full-scale release since 2018. The new album, These Same Skies, features 11 original songs from some of the most talented minds of the group. The record is already available now across all digital platforms, but a CD release is coming on […]
TRUE STORY: The boy who could have been a model — Mark Roberts
Written by Mark Roberts on Nov 8 2021 Colossus of Rhodes. (PHOTO: flickr) The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic statue of the Titan, Helios: The sun god, who stood 100 feet (30.48m) tall and rested on a marble pedestal, fifty feet (30,24m) high. The statue stood in the Greek city […]
One Christian dead and over 100 kidnapped after attack on church service in Nigeria
Christian campaigners are pleading with the Nigerian government to take action to stop the assault on Christians after yet another deadly attack. One Christian was killed and over a 100 others kidnapped in an attack on a church service in Nigeria over the weekend. Gunmen opened fire during a service […]
The worship service: then and now — in one lifetime! (2)
In my last column I traced the changes that have taken place in the Church’s worship services. For the most part these were neutral’ changes. They were more superficial cultural changes that did not affect the deeper levels of our Christian being. We observed movements from formal liturgies to freer […]
‘Over 340 million persecuted’: believers set to mark International Day of Prayer for Oppressed Christians
Originally published in CBN NewsEach November, the call goes out around the globe for Christians to come together and pray for the persecuted church. Organisers of this year’s International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians say intercession is needed now more than ever as hundreds of millions of believers are experiencing attacks […]
Ethiopia: Christian crisis looms as rebels advance
By Elizabeth Kendal — originally published in Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin Enabled by foreign powers – particularly Egypt, the Sudanese military and the US Biden administration – the Marxist, separatist Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF, also known as the Tigray Defence Force) and the ethno-nationalist Oromo Liberation Army (OLA, formerly […]