South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]In Video of the Week we post a weekly video clip to inspire, inform, edify or entertain. Readers are welcome to email suggested clips of the week to news@gatwaynews.co.za[/notice] Originally posted in Charisma News One by one, they speak. One by one, the families of those murdered address the accused. One […]
“We want them to know Jesus Christ” Originally published in The Gospel Herald Christians living in Niger, West Africa have offered Christ-like forgiveness to the radical Muslims who destroyed their homes and churches, are are continuing to share the Gospel in the region. On January 17, hundreds of Muslims, angered […]
Boy forgives Muslim attackers before he dies Originally published in The Christian Post The 15-year-old Pakistani Christian boy who was beaten and set on fire by two Muslim men last Friday after answering truthfully if he was a Christian, died Wednesday morning due to burns inflicted during the attack. According […]
Little did the young Iraqi refugee girl know that her comments about forgiveness would go viral. When interviewed recently by Sat 7 reporter Essam Nagy, 10-year-old Myriam shared her heart about life as a refugee in Erbil, Kurdistan. She told Nagy that she forgives ISIS for forcing her family from their […]
Blood Speaks, an ambitious stage production for the whole family which will be presented at the Sand Du Plessis Theatre in Bloemfontein on April 9, 10 and 11, asks questions that are relevant in an age when ISIS and other Islamist groups are committing atrocities agains Christians and other groups, […]
Time for Christians to steady the ship again Twenty-five years ago today (February 11, 2015), Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison in the Western Cape after 27 years of imprisonment. South Africa and the world watched as he took his first steps of freedom and towards building […]
Cape Town couple, Rodney and Maria Lakay are praising God, thankful to Him for their many blessings and grateful to be in His service. Almost a month ago they both lost their lower legs when a vehicle slammed into them while they were watching a supercar rally in Knysna where […]
Originally published in Fox News.com A woman who spent 17 years in prison for the death of a homeless man hugged her grandchild for the first time and did a dance of happiness on Friday after she was judged innocent of murder and freed. “I always knew that one day […]
Originally published in Gospel Herald Emma Czornobaj may be facing life in prison for causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and his daughter after parking her car on a highway to ensure that a group of ducklings could safely cross the street. According to the police report, in 2010, Andre […]
Armenian genocide commemorated 99 years later “Do you live by fact or truth?” That was one of the challenges posted in the drama “Blood Speaks”, performed in Bloemfontein just before Easter. Pastor Cornelis van Heyningen from Our Father’s Home started a project 14 years ago, creating a drama about the […]