South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Since lockdown began last year Calvary Temple Church in Hyderabad, with more than 330 000 members, has distributed 700 tons of food supplies to families in desperate need. Now as India is in the grip of a devastating second wave, their church building has been converted into a 300 bed Covid care […]
Originally published in Eternity Mani Chacko is the general secretary of Bible Society India (BSI). He gives Eternity readers an update on the BSI team and provides a snapshot of what life is like in the midst of such devastation. Every day, life is “utterly devastating”, says Chacko, who is based in […]
While government has eased restrictions on religious gatherings there remain in-principle reasons for pursuing a court case that was instituted against the state in January, says Advocate Nadene Badenhorst legal counsel to Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA). In a video [see at bottom of the page] response to […]
Originally published in Fox News A 105-year-old New Jersey woman who beat Covid-19 shared her secrets for a long life, and at least one of them may be unexpected. Lucia DeClerck, who is the oldest patient at the Mystic Meadows Rehab and Nursing Center in Little Egg Harbor Township, said she prays […]
In one of two reports posted this week by Charisma Magazine of how God turned a time of pain and strife in America into an opportunity for revival, evangelist Joshua Lindquist writes about what happened when Christians shared the love of Jesus in the midst of rioting over police killings […]
By David Parsons — originally published by the ICEJ Although Ben-Gurion Airport is currently shut down for the first time since Israel’s founding in 1948, a specially chartered flight sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) was allowed to bring 302 Ethiopian Jewish immigrants home to Israel early this […]
Freedom of Religion SA legal counsel Advocate Nadene Badenhorst has written the letter below to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding vaccines: 10 February 2021 Dear President Ramaphosa, RE: Religious / CONSCIENTIOUS concern regarding the use of (historical) abortion-derived fetal cell lines in the development or production of certain COVID-19 vaccines As […]
Prayer warriors from across Africa joined together on January 30 for a five-hour prayer connect event to ask God to have mercy on the nations of the continent. The fiery prayer gathering, which saw believers of all ages from a wide tradition of churches from South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, […]
The testimony below was sent to Gateway News by Paul Raper, a marriage registration officer and pastor who lives in Port Elizabeth. At the age of 69, when many folk you know end up in hospital having contracted Covid-19, not to make it home again, the thought of it happening […]
Frontline workers in South Africa are breathing a sigh of relief as the arrival of vaccines brings a promise of push back against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. This brings a greater hope of saving lives and reducing the number of infections. Running parallel to this is a breakthrough Ivermectin treatment […]
