South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry.[/notice] Over the Easter period I met some ladies for prayer. We talked about many things including the fact that our earthly experiences of family have a great effect on our relationship with our Heavenly Father and other Christians. This makes sense because Jesus used the example […]
Exonerated man spent more than 7 years in jail By World Watch Monitor A Pakistan court Wednesday threw out the 2007 conviction of a Christian man sentenced to death for offending Islam. Younis Masih is at least the second Christian accused of blasphemy that Pakistan judges have exonerated since the […]
The Russian military has introduced a high-tech air-dropped church along with a unit of priests trained in parachuting and vehicle assembly to serve the army and navy’s Orthodox Christian soldiers in the field. The European country claims its airborne-friendly and ready-to-assemble house of worship is the first the world has […]
Originally published in allAfrica.com The Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, has called on religious leaders and the government to work together to ensure peaceful co-existence between Christians and Muslims in the country. According to Vatican Radio, the call follows attacks in the past weeks by Islamic fundamentalists […]
Originally published in CBN News Christians in central Nigeria are appealing for prayer after a new round of violence left as many as 80 people dead and more than 4 000 others displaced during the Easter season. At least 19 people were killed this week when gunmen attacked the mostly […]
Originally published in Christian Post A $5 million bounty has been put up by the Obama administration on Wednesday for information leading to the capture of Lord’s Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony, as well as two of his top aides, and a Rwandan rebel suspected of crimes against humanity. The […]
Originally published in Charisma News April is the month when Israel remembers the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust (sundown April 7-8), when every vehicle stops and humans stand at attention for two minutes while sirens sound. Then on April 14-15, another siren sounds on Memorial Day for the […]
A white mare named Molly advertised on Gumtree seemed to meet the requirements of Christian bagpiper, Piperjames, for a white steed for use in spreading the Gospel in and around Cape Town. The initial email correspondence between prospective buyer and seller was encouraging. “Molly is the old plantation style walking […]
Read in English [notice]Vir die afgelope 10 jaar het die Mighty Men beweging ‘n fenomenale impak op mans regdeur Suid-Afrika gehad. Wat sê, doen en beplan God deur Mighty Men in hierdie land? Strategiese finansiële konsultant en voorheen lid van die Weskaap se parlement, HENNIE BESTER, openbaar die volgende visie. […]
[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] One of the founding fathers of modern worship music, Brian Doerksen, says: “My deep concern is about some of what is going on in the modern […]