South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Most of us have been through something that made us feel ugly. A break-up, an abuse, a loss, poverty, disappointment, depression, all manners of rejection … The list is vast — how we’re left feeling though, is universal. We’re left […]
Alf James spoke to the organisers of a 40 Days of Worship campaign from September 24 to November 23 which is open to South Africans all over the country, but with the centre of reverential devotion being in Cape Town. The 40 days of glorifying the Lord will be heralded […]
The parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has postponed next week’s scheduled hearings on the CRL Commission’s controversial report recommending the regulation of religion, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in a press release. Blaming the delay on the need to consider more pressing legislation, […]
Originally published in Charisma News Hillsong United takes viewers behind the scenes into their songwriting process. Learn what unique inspiration created the song So Will I (100 Billion X) from the new album Wonder.
Originally published in Jerusalem Post Christian leaders from several African countries concluded meetings in Jerusalem last Wednesday with Israeli start-ups, politicians and businesses during the African Leadership Summit hosted by the Institute for Christian Leadership Development. “Africa Celebrates Jerusalem” is this year’s theme for the summit, which aims to strengthen […]
Originally published in Christian Today Christian children at refugee camps in Sudan are not receiving food unless they say Islamic prayers, according to reports received by sources close to the leading Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). One of ACN’s local contacts, who asked to remain anonymous […]
Originally published in Breaking Israel News A collection of dozens of sealing’s, mentioning the names of officials dated to the days of the Judean kingdom prior to the Babylonian destruction, was unearthed during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David National Park in the area of […]
Originally published in The Christian Times Bishop Anba Angaelos, the head of the Coptic Church in Britain, has recently told Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militants who killed 100 Christians in Egypt in the past year that they are “loved by God” despite their horrible crimes. “You are […]
When Gateway News received a lovely recording [Listen below] of nursing staff at Life St George’s Hospital, Port Elizabeth, singing the Lord’s Prayer in a urology ward, we decided to investigate. We found out that at the change of the morning and afternoon shifts the nursing staff in the different wards […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor A Sudan church leader who spent Christmas 2015 in prison on charges of spying before being freed after 19 days due to lack of evidence, was re-arrested last week, along with five other church leaders. Those arrested belong to the Sudan Church of Christ […]