South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The approach to Passover and Easter is a good time to remember the extreme bravery of German pastor Paul Schneider, who almost single-handedly stood up to Nazi brutality in the years immediately preceding World War II. He paid with his life, murdered by lethal injection in July 1939, aged just […]
A veteran nurse who calmly subdued an armed man just after he shot dead three people at the New Somerset Hospital in Cape Town on Saturday May 7 attributes her heroism to prayer and God’s intervention. Sister Diane Seale, who hugged and chatted with the gunman until he agreed to […]
Even as I sit down in my prayer room and write this letter, we are preparing to go on a trip to an Eastern Cape Karoo area that has been ravaged with drought for a long, long time. We thank God for the rain that has fallen on the Northern […]
Originally published in Christian Today The beach was shrouded in darkness. The eerie silence was occasionally broke by the sound of waves gently lapping the seashore. Hundreds of Christians were silently clustered on the coast of Southern China. They were waiting to take part in what is now considered a […]
We are surrounded by ‘a great cloud of witnesses’ (Heb 12.1) As Christians fight battles on several fronts – not only with Covid, but from increasing attempts to shut down their voice – courage is the great need of the hour. There can surely be few better examples of this […]
Originally published in Premier Christianity News A US woman who was battling cancer has died 18 hours after she tied the knot from her hospital bed. Heather Mosher’s vows to Dave Mosher at Saint Francis Hospital in Connecticut were one of her last words on December 22, 2017. The couple […]
Originally published in CBN News On the morning of July 24, Captain Christian Trosvig started the day like any other — he circled up his crew and prayed. Trosvig is a fisherman of more than 20 years. His home port is Kodiak, Alaska. That Monday he and his crew and […]
Plucky Port Elizabeth primary school teacher Richard Geyer, 27, is halfway into an epic run of 1 000km in 10 days to raise funds for cancer despite a blister on his little toe that flared up on the first day and which has since gone septic. Grit obviously runs in […]
Wayne Bolton will be jumping on his bicycle again soon to embark on another multi-thousand kilometre ride to save our wildlife and inspire others to make a difference where God has placed them. In 2015/2016 he completed a gruelling 6 000km ride over 2½ months, taking in all 19 national […]
Men and women who defied the bullies and risked their lives [notice]Tomorrow — January 27 — is Holocaust Memorial Day. Charles Gardner reflects on a rise in anti-Semitism today, and our response.[/notice] Seventy-two years after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27 1945, Britain and other […]