South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Women all over South Africa will join some 3 million women worldwide who will pray and worship together during the Woman’s World Day of Prayer (WWDP) on Friday, March 1. This year’s WWDP service was prepared by Christian women of France and the theme is ‘I was a stranger and […]
By VOA News – via Contact Online Weblog The national coordinator of Swaziland’s United Democratic Front, (SUDF) says the country’s police violated the constitution by disrupting church prayers organized by the group. Wandile DluDlu says despite repeated requests, the police refused to show any court order or warrant that authorized […]
Originally published in Christian Post Two filmmaking organisations supporting Christians interested in impacting culture through their work in movies announced on Tuesday (February 19) that an award of up to $1 million will be given toward producing a feature-length film to the winner of this year’s 168 Film Project contest. […]
iBalaclava, a low-budget short film made in Du Noon township, Cape Town, largely by a team of young film makers from a local church, came out tops at the Second Annual Jozi Film Festival held on the 15th – 17th February 2013. The Festival culminated in an awards ceremony at […]
By Jeremy Reynalds — Originally published in ASSIST News Service Saudi authorities on February 8 arrested 53 Ethiopian Christians, mostly women, who were attending a worship service in the private, rented home of an Ethiopian believer in Dammam, the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. That’s according to […]
By Nirmala Carvalho — Originally published in AsiaNews Two more anti-Christian incidents in Madhya Pradesh illustrate the latest trend among Hindu fundamentalists. In addition to filing false charges over forced conversions, they are now attacking Christians in the privacy of their homes even though “praying in one’s home is not […]
By Jeremy Reynalds –Originally published in ASSIST News Service A human rights organisation has learned that at least 55 Christians have been detained without charge by the Sudanese government for about two weeks. According to a news release from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), its sources say the group, which has […]
Originally published by CBS News Gunmen attacked a camp for a construction company in rural northern Nigeria, killing a guard and kidnapping seven foreign workers from Britain, Greece, Italy, Lebanon and the Philippines, authorities said Sunday, in the biggest kidnapping yet in a region under attack by Islamic extremists. The […]
Cape Town Christians participating in a 40 day prayer vigil in front of a city abortion clinic are seeing results, said coordinator Colette Thomas in a Day 9 interview today. “Since last week Wednesday, 13 February. we could see that the numbers [of women attending the clinic] have dropped. I […]
Originally published in Daily Times Four foreigners have been arrested in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on suspicion of being Christian missionaries and printing books about Christianity, a security official said on Saturday. “They were arrested on Tuesday at a publishing house where they were printing thousands of books […]