South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By INcontext Ministries — Originally published in A World In Motion, Issue 137, Nov 19, 2015 French, Russian, British and US warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq as the harrowing attacks carried out by the jihadi group in Paris spurred international efforts to crush the terrorist organisation. […]
Originally published in CNN.com Two bomb attacks in 24 hours — one of them involving an 11-year-old female bomber — killed dozens of people and wounded more than 120 others in the Nigerian cities of Yola and Kano, authorities said. At least 31 people were killed and 72 others injured […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]