South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Suzanne Geske, the widow of Tillmann Geske, who was killed in the 2007 Malatya Zirve Publishing House massacre, has applied for Turkish citizenship a second time after first being refused a passport. Geske told the Hürriyet Daily News that she made the second application 10 months but had yet to […]
Originally published in Charisma News A primary school teacher faced disciplinary action because she didn’t want to read to her class from a storybook about gay penguins. The teacher, who has not been named, works in a school in a London Borough and her case has been told to a […]
By Jay Radzinski and Daniel Nisman — Originally published in Alaska Dispatch “I pointed out to you the stars, and all you saw was the tip of my finger.” This Tanzanian proverb should resonate deeply with anyone who fears the spread of Islamic extremism in Africa. On Tanzania’s island paradise […]
Originally published in Charisma News Pornography and sexual promiscuity are destroying a generation of young people in England according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) which reports that from 2009 to 2012 more than 5 000 sexual assaults in England involved a child perpetrator […]
The Karoo Mighty Men Conference committee has sounded an urgent call for prayer warriors to pray for 40 days from Monday (March 18) until the start of the KMMC on Friday, April 26. “We need a mighty army of people praying and interceding that God will do an awesome work […]
Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, taking all his meals at the King’s table. He was lame in both feet. 2 Samuel 9:13 (MSG) There is a story in the Bible that is easy to overlook. It’s a story that no one seems to teach in Sunday school. Yet it’s a story […]
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry.[/notice] “Uh-uh, oh no you didn’t” Jeff’s hand was on his hip, his eyes bulging out of their sockets and his hip cocked to the side. I have no proof but I’m convinced that it was a biblically accurate depiction of how Michal looked when she confronted […]
[notice]In this week’s Righteous Rant Pretoria dad MARTIN LABUSCHAGNE has his say on the burning issue of the right to life of unborn children. Gateway News invites you to email your rant to news@gatewaynews.co.za for possible publication in this new, occasional column where readers get to share what’s on their heart. […]
[notice]AFRIKA MHLOPHE returned this week from a Government-sponsored conference attended by South Africans of vastly different worldviews. He shares some impressions of this event.[/notice] The CRL Commission, a statutory organisation tasked with the promotion and protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, held its National Consultative Conference […]
[notice]Gateway News reporter JOHANITA JORDAAN spoke to Martin Munene, a victim of a human smuggling scam. She also spoke to a Johannesburg church leader who provides spiritual and practical support to many traumatised victims of such scams.[/notice] Kenyan citizen Martin Munene found himself wondering the streets of Johannesburg, traumatised after […]