South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
I get the impression that there’s a people group who sometimes feel forgotten, living as they do on the other side of the world – Down Under! I should know, because I have close family there. So I will try to remedy this. I have just received a glowing report […]
I have just been sent a Daily Express newspaper cutting dated June 9 1967, full of smiling faces as Israel swept to victory in the Six-Day War. Described as “pictures of victory…of a people happy to be in complete control – for the first time in nearly 2 000 years […]
It seems the Christian West is particularly out of sync with Israel this year, with Easter and Passover separated by several weeks – they are usually much closer together despite following different calendars. And it comes against the background of rising pressure from supposedly friendly nations to reward terrorism by […]
Gateway News UK Correspondent Charles Gardner celebrates the blessing of pro-Israel worship on the streets of Amsterdam, decades after the wartime persecution of the city’s Jewish residents remembered in a book by a Holocaust survivor While hate-filled demonstrators call for Israel’s destruction in London and elsewhere, the streets of Amsterdam […]
A former Muslim-turned atheist has now explained why Christianity is the only way to find meaning and purpose to life. In a personal reflection of her discovery, Ayaan Hirsi Ali recalls how, in 2002, she came across a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled Why I am not a Christian. […]
As a part-Jewish South African, it was a special delight for me to meet up recently with a compatriot who was among the pioneers of Messiah’s People. This is the name given to the Gospel work among South Africa’s Jewish community sponsored by CMJ (Church’s Ministry among Jewish people), a […]
A Jewish man who has been following Jesus for 40 years is calling on fellow Christians to make him known among his people. God’s command to Pharaoh (via Moses) to “Let my people go” when they were slaves in ancient Egypt has now become “Let my people know”, according to […]
Our UK correspondent, Charles Gardner penned this follow-up to his article last week on lessons learnt from the Yom Kippur war Mention of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War has revived significant memories for at least two friends of mine. Recollections which throw new light on the […]
How does a Jewish atheist brought up on an Israeli kibbutz end up a missionary to his own people? Asaf Pelled, 43, admits that being an atheist and Jewish is something of an anomaly in view of their being God’s chosen people, but he was far from alone on that […]
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent Amidst much internal conflict in Israel, we are fast approaching the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War in the autumn of 1973. And it will coincide, appropriately, with the launch of the movie Golda – about the legendary Israeli Prime Minister at the time. […]