South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter MARTIN SMITH — GOD’S GREAT DANCE FLOOR To my great delight I start this journey with Gateway News in reviewing the brand new CD from a well-known voice in Christian Music: Martin Smith. I first encountered this gentleman’s voice in 2007 when he was still […]
The coordinators of two visionary initiatives to prevent suicides at Van Stadens Bridge near Port Elizabeth have invited members of the public to attend a celebration ceremony at the foot of the Cross of Hope on a promontary opposite the bridge. “Over the last year many, many people have been […]
More than ten thousand men gathered in a stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday (November 17) night, to listen to South African farmer evangelist Angus Buchan who was the main speaker at the second Mighty Men Conference USA. “God sent men from every corner of the USA to Bridgestone Arena, […]
Vikki Cole, a DJ on East London’s Christian community radio station, Link FM, launched her debut album, Soli Deo Gloria, on Saturday (November 16). The album tells the story of the journey of her heart since she gave her life to Jesus in May 1983. All but one of the 10 […]
Book Review by World Watch Monitor THE GLOBAL WAR ON CHRISTIANS: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION by JOHN L. ALLEN JR It has been an astonishing last 12 months for books on the persecution of Christians when there has been such silence on the issue for so […]
A Dutch court’s decision to unban a child-sex advocacy group, Martijn, poses a threat to South Africa, say the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and Operation Bobbi Bear (OBB), who have signed a petition calling on the Dutch government to re-ban the group and to ban any form of child-sex […]
Originally published in Persecution.org In a remote corner of Nepal, a church elder was summoned three times after midnight last month to pray for the head of a devout Hindu family. The first time the wife and mother of Kumar Sardar summoned church elder Debalal Sardar (no relation) to their […]
Originally published in Fox News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that a “bad deal” between Iran and international negotiators seeking to prevent Tehran from being able to assemble an atomic weapons arsenal could lead to war. Addressing Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said continued economic pressure on […]
The World Council of Churches has elected Kenyan Anglican Dr Agnes Abuom of Nairobi, as the Moderator of the highest WCC governing body and South African, Dr Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel, Moderator of the Uniting Reformed Church (URC) in Southern Africa, as the Africa president of the WCC. Abuom, who was […]
Deur Pieter Fourie — Oorspronklik gepubliseer in Kerkbode Die ANC se onheilige vergelyking van sy drieparty-alliansie met die heilige Drie-eenheid het met reg baie Christene warm onder die kraag. Soos ook talle van dié party se ander kwasi-godsdienstige uitsprake die jongste tyd. President Zuma het sy party reeds herhaaldelik as […]