By David Parsons — originally published by the ICEJ Although Ben-Gurion Airport is currently shut down for the first time since Israel’s founding in 1948, a specially chartered flight sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) was allowed to bring 302 Ethiopian Jewish immigrants home to Israel early this […]
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Student suing over transgender policy says she’s fighting for fairness in women’s sports
Originally published in Fox News A Connecticut student who filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s Interscholastic Athletic Conference transgender policy, told “The Faulkner Focus” on Thursday that she sued to fight “for fairness in women’s sports.” Selina Soule said Thursday that throughout all four years of high school she was “forced to compete against biological males in the girls […]
5 churches burned down in village in Kenya
Originally published in The Christian Post An association of churches and Christian clergy has demanded an investigation after unidentified arsonists destroyed five churches and threw human feces onto the buildings in one village in western Kenya, according to reports. St Monica Church in Otamba village in Nyaribari Chache area of […]
Tribute to Nico Bougas who served the Lord to the end
David Melvill writes about the life of husband, father, Christian journalist and missionary to Greece, Nico Bougas, 80, who went to be with the Lord on Wednesday When a spiritual giant such as Nico Bougas dies, we experience mixed feelings of rejoicing and sad loss. Nico has already been crowned […]
70 Christians freed from prison in Eritrea
Originally published in Christian Today Dozens of Christians have been freed from prison in Eritrea after being held for years without charge. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports that the Christians — 70 in total -= came from evangelical and orthodox backgrounds, with prison sentences ranging from two to 12 years. […]
Dear President, please consider these concerns when rolling out vaccines
Freedom of Religion SA legal counsel Advocate Nadene Badenhorst has written the letter below to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding vaccines: 10 February 2021 Dear President Ramaphosa, RE: Religious / CONSCIENTIOUS concern regarding the use of (historical) abortion-derived fetal cell lines in the development or production of certain COVID-19 vaccines As […]
‘Goliath trampled’ as prayer warriors unite in Africa-wide prayer connect
Prayer warriors from across Africa joined together on January 30 for a five-hour prayer connect event to ask God to have mercy on the nations of the continent. The fiery prayer gathering, which saw believers of all ages from a wide tradition of churches from South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, […]
Let’s pay heed to Caleb and Joshua’s reports
On Monday Gateway News celebrated a decade of “telling the God stories of Africa”. Editor Andre Viljoen shares some reflections on why we should care about the news we consume For many years an old Barlow Wadley shortwave radio receiver gathered dust at the bottom of my wardrobe, a forgotten […]
Good news for sports lovers — JP Flugel
But what is the true meaning of sport? Good day friends. Welcome to February’s edition of Team Talk. Let me begin by wishing Gateway News a happy 10th year anniversary. Congratulations to Andre Viljoen who is the founder and our editor. A man with vision and a heart to see God’s truth revealed […]
Love of Jesus melts hearts of Hitler’s henchmen — Charles Gardner
Along with the many stories of terrible suffering experienced by the Jewish people during World War II, a largely unknown testimony of God’s amazing grace emerged from the very place where justice was carried out upon some of the Holocaust’s leading perpetrators. A paean of praise to the limitless mercy […]