South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’ — Romans 10:15, partially quoting Isaiah 52:7 These words have inspired my entire adult life as I have endeavoured to walk in the footsteps of Jesus – and especially, in my retirement years, in sharing the gospel with the […]
Originally published in God TV To lead the whole family to Jesus has always been a believer’s prayer after being the first to be saved in the family. That is why when the news of a little girl who led her whole family to Jesus went viral, it stirred hope […]
Early last Saturday morning a team of about 150 members of Dare to Love (DTL), a Pretoria group that regularly reaches out to destitute people with the love of Jesus, arrived in the heart of the city’s CBD with brooms, bags and gloves to clean up a massive mess left […]
As a nine-year-old growing up in Bloemfontein not too far off 50 years ago, Mariette Schlebusch was a happy little girl. “A lot of us children would play together in the street — you could in those days without any security fears — and it was a lot of fun,” […]
Then God said: “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” — Genesis 1:26 From the […]
It is an undisputed fact that the early followers of Jesus — who were mostly Jewish — came under fiery persecution, often from their own people. Jesus Himself was crucified and many of His disciples suffered similar fates, though more generally at the hands of the Romans. However, the great […]
Originally published in CBN News Alyse Merritt grew up as a devout Jew who loved the Torah and wanted little to do with the Christian faith. “All I knew was that Jesus was the false God of the gentiles because that’s kind of what was beaten into our heads since […]
[notice]A monthly column by Michael Cassidy, evangelist, author, Christian leader and founder of African Enterprise whose ministry in Africa and the world has spanned more than 50 years.[/notice] It’s fashionable these days in many quarters to knock the Church. It is easy also to find grounds to do so. After […]
A SPAR store in Cape Town has been getting a lot of reaction this week to its two large banners and other signage proclaiming Christ as the true reason for Christmas, reports Kaylynne Bantom of Tygerberg 104 FM. “At the end of the day I believe we must proclaim the […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor For more than two years it lasted, just minutes away from Islamic State-held territory. The Iraqi town of Alqosh (50km north of Mosul) is the only Christian stronghold in the country that survived IS. Looking for signs of hope for the future of Christianity […]