South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Charisma News How far will a father go for his daughter? Well, one father advertised for a future son-in-law in a Christian magazine, telling suitors she is “godly, gorgeous, athletic, educated, careered, humorous, travelled, bilingual, 26-year-old virgin.” The daughter, Rachel Stewart, says she was tipped off by some “sympathetic women” […]
[notice] A monthly column in which Kwakanya Nazo shares stories, interviews and testimonies of young people from all walks of life who are radical for Jesus and live to see change and transformation in and around them.[/notice] In the world and times we live in it becomes rarer by the […]
When I was a child I could be found in our vineyard eagerly wanting to pick the large fat green grapes. Up on tiptoe or probably precariously balancing on my bicycle I would reach for what I considered the ripe grapes. My mouth was watering but I was saved from […]
Originally published in The Elijah List [notice]Expectations are high for a significant move of God at AzusaNow,the 110th anniversary celebration of the Azusa Street revival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on on April 9, 2016. Lou Engele, co-founder of TheCall, Inc and a driving force behind AzusaNow, shares a […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen In Son of Hamas we are given a unique and intensely personal perspective on the Middle East conflict. Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member and leader of Hamas, the terrorist organisation responsible for countless suicide bombings and other […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Several days of attacks in February’s final days killed hundreds of people and sent thousands fleeting from largely Christian areas of Nigeria’s farming belt. The armed attacks in and around Agatu, in the central Nigerian state of Benue, had features long familiar to Nigerians: […]
Bill Hybels will be hosting ‘Leadership Matters’ coaching events in South Africa in May during a five weeks visit to five African nations that have embraced the annual Global Leadership Summit (GLS). He will be in Cape Town on May 4, Durban on May 5 and Pretoria on May 6 […]
[notice]Jessica Spronk extends an invitation on behalf of PE Burn 24-7.[/notice] Join us this weekend for our first BURN 24-7 citywide, interdenominational worship event of 2016. BURN 24-7 is an international movement aimed at uniting churches in the name of Jesus through worship and prayer events. These events have been […]
“Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb” (Genesis 30:32). The largest flock of one of the most ancient breeds of sheep, the Jacob Sheep, is found today in, of all places, the Canadian town of Abbotsford in […]
Originally published in Fox News Pakistan on Monday (February 29, 2016) hanged the convicted killer of a former governor, shot in 2011 by his bodyguard who accused him of blasphemy, officials said. The execution triggered protests in several cities denouncing the hanging after some religious and political leaders, as well […]