South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
“Boyfriends shouldn’t have husbands’ benefits”, said Dr Pinky Ngcakani-Ncula during a talk at the Womb Stewardship launch in Port Elizabeth on Friday October 12. The ministry founded by “Dr Pinky”, which encourages young and unmarried people to remain celibate and to refrain from sexual immorality, was launched with a red-carpet evening […]
Originally published in Life Site News A biopic about a notorious late-term abortionist was the most successful independent film at the box office last weekend despite a mainstream media blackout. Opening on the same weekend as moon-landing film First Man and the kids’ movie Goosebumps 2: Haunted Hallowe’en, Gosnell: The […]
Originally published in Charisma News Eugene Peterson, the bestselling author of The Message and longtime pastor praised as a “shepherd’s shepherd,” is moving into hospice and receiving palliative medical care. Peterson, 85, was hospitalised Tuesday October 9 “when he took a sudden and dramatic turn in his health caused by […]
Originally published in The Christian Post The Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has executed a second humanitarian worker and vowed that Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu will be a slave for life. The Islamic State West Africa Province, as the group is officially called, a testament to its ties to the […]
When a young barrister came into a great fortune over 200 years ago, he did not spend it on himself but instead used it to turn the key that would eventually unlock the fulfilment of numerous biblical prophecies. Lewis Way must have been dumbstruck when, for no obvious reason, he […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Andrew Brunson and his wife prayed for President Trump at the White House Saturday after the pastor was freed from Turkey where he was held captive for over two years. Brunson told Trump that he and his family “pray for him often” and said […]
Originally published in Christian Today The Trump administration is hopeful that American pastor Andrew Brunson who is on trial in Turkey could be freed at a Friday court hearing, but the State Department said it was unaware of any deal with the Turkish government for his release. NBC News and […]
Pretoria is going all-out to get ready for the biggest prayer gathering the country has yet to witness, said Mario Steyn, one of the organisers of the It’s Time prayer meeting on October 27. With just a fortnight to go there is still a lot to do, but the team […]
Originally published in Response October 12 2018 — from the Parliamentary Advisory Office of the SA Catholic Bishops’ Conference This week brought news of two very significant and positive developments as far as standards of good governance in South Africa are concerned. One of them attracted headline coverage while the […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Radical religious groups in Pakistan have called for mass protests and threatened the judges of the country’s Supreme Court in Islamabad ahead of their ruling in the blasphemy case of Christian woman Asia Bibi. The hardline Islamic party, the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), threatened the […]