South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in CBN News Radical Muslims are pressuring officials to close churches and jail pastors in Indonesia. And that’s not all. The extremists stir up violent mobs to destroy the buildings and threaten believers. But that’s not stopping the Church from growing in the world’s largest Muslim-populated nation. Recently, […]
More than 2.5million people displaced in unprecedented humanitarian disaster By Illia Djadi — Originally published in World Watch Monitor A special report by IRIN, built on field visits to Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in […]
Originally published in Christian Post Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have united to defend a biblical Syrian Christian town from being conquered by the Islamic State terrorist organisation, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church has said. As IS militants continue to push west toward the Syrian capital […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Historic gathering of Christianity’s different traditions Twenty-five years ago, on November 4, 1990, a priest risked his life to hold a mass in a cemetery in Albania. In 1967 his president, Enver Hoxha, had declared he’d “abolished” Christian faith, and that his country was […]
Originally published in LifeSiteNews The City of Toronto is being threatened with legal action for refusing to grant a Christian group a permit to use a prominent downtown square for its annual musical festival next year, all because the city determined that singing the name of Jesus in the public […]
By Open Doors SA Open Doors’ International Days of Prayer (IDOP) is a global movement of intercessory prayer for the persecuted Church. From the 1st until the 8th of November 2015, Open Doors, and Christians around the world, will unite in prayer for the persecuted Church worldwide, with a special […]
Originally published in ACLJ A Christian church sits in ruins today in Omdurman, Sudan, and its congregation is left scrambling to find a makeshift meeting location in time for next Sunday. Our contact on the ground in Sudan reports to us that last week government officials appeared at the Evangelical […]
Originally published in Yahoo News The Nigerian army on Wednesday said it had freed more than 330 people, mostly women and children, from Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest stronghold in the volatile northeast. “The (army) unit … rescued 338 persons that were held captive by the terrorists,” the army said of […]
Egyptian-born, US entrepreneur, Johnny Youssef, raised money for families of Egyptian Christian men beheaded by ISIS in Libya. See below the video he used in appealing for funds for the grieving families. However, he says he was unprepared for what he learned when he visited the families in Egypt. He […]
Originally published in Morning Star News Islamists upset by a Christian-Muslim debate are suspected in the killing of a long-time evangelist in eastern Uganda who led many Muslims to Christ, sources said. The mutilated body of Samson Nfunyeku was found close to his home in Kalampete village, Kibuku District early […]