Originally published in FOX News The man widely known as the suspected mastermind of last Friday’s Paris attacks that killed 129 people, who bragged that he could always stay one step ahead of Western intelligence, was killed in the police raid north of Paris Wednesday. Officials also confirmed that his […]
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Churches probe: CRL Commission ‘willing to talk, but not willing to stop’
On Tuesday, November 17, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA), along with leaders from various religions and faith communities, participated in a meeting convened by the Commission for Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Commission, a state institution established in terms of Chapter 9 of the Constitution) […]
NG Kerk: Gays sal moet wag
Oorspronklik in Netwerk 24 gepubliseer Die NG Kerk hou by die besluit van sy algemene sinode om gay lidmate op elke vlak te verwelkom, maar die uitvoering daarvan is vir twee jaar uitgestel. Dit beteken gay proponente mag voorlopig nie in die amp van leraar georden word nie, tensy hulle selibaat […]
Beirut: Police arrest 11 after ISIS suicide bombing
Originally posted in The Christian Post Lebanese security forces have arrested 11 people, most of them Syrians, in connection with the last week’s double suicide bomb attack in Beirut, which killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 239 others, targeting Shiite Muslims. Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nuhad Mashnuq announced […]
WATCH: Video Of The Week: Jesus set him free of dagga in a dream
Watch the video clip below in which South African revivalist Lindy Ann Hopley chats with Brandon Van Der Bank and his mother, Amanda Van Der Bank, in Cape Town this week about his recent life-changing encounter with Jesus in a dream and about her own part in this remarkable God […]
Calls for fervent prayer to break crippling drought
Jericho Walls Prayer Network and the South African agricultural industry association, Afri SA, have called on South Africans to come together to pray for an end to the crippling drought that is affecting large areas of the country. Jericho Walls has asked churches to make time during services on Sundays […]
Indonesia closing churches, yet faith still grows
Originally published in CBN News Radical Muslims are pressuring officials to close churches and jail pastors in Indonesia. And that’s not all. The extremists stir up violent mobs to destroy the buildings and threaten believers. But that’s not stopping the Church from growing in the world’s largest Muslim-populated nation. Recently, […]
Thiago Silava, the Brazilian soccer superstar who was nearly aborted, but lived
Originally published in Life Site News Thiago Silva is one of the top stars in Brazil’s national soccer team. So important was he to this year’s team that many sports commentators blamed the country’s first and only loss in the semifinals of this year’s world cup to the fact that […]
Pastor: I will go to jail rather than follow government order to fund abortion
Originally published in Life Site News On a Sunday morning, congregants fill the campus of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, a non-denominational evangelical church located in the heart of Southern California. Since the church’s inception, Senior Pastor Jack Hibbs – a strong pro-life proponent – has encouraged his congregation to uphold […]
Singing that pleases God: all genres
[notice]Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column.[/notice] So, if our Worship Singing must not be “conformed to the pattern of this world” (Romans 12:2), what are God’s own criteria for this Renewed Pattern for […]