South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in ACN United States The targeting of young people, indiscriminate killings and widespread sexual violence — including the rape of nuns — is part of a genocidal campaign against the Tigrayan ethnic people of northern Ethiopia, charged a source close to the Church. The source, who asked to […]
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has called on South African faith groups and civil society lobbies to press the SA government to intervene in a Ethiopia where the government is accused of committing war crimes against the people of the northern province of Tigray. Warning that what […]
Originally published in Morning Star News. A Christian in north-central Nigeria who led a team of civilians that apprehended Muslim Fulani herdsmen after they allegedly killed five Christians on Thursday night (May 28) was blunt about their motives. “These Muslim Fulani herdsmen have been attacking our communities because we are […]
Originally published in Breaking Israel News Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’ the title of a May 3 BBC report, cites a lengthy interim study ordered by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and led by Rev Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro. According to the BBC report, one in three […]
Originally published in BR Now The mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria is calculated genocide abetted by the government in the nation that is Africa’s most Christian, cries a growing number of leaders calling on the United States to intervene. Evangelical John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Centre for Christian […]
Originally published in Foreign Policy Do we want to be the generation that stood by as Christians disappeared almost entirely from the ancient homelands they have occupied since the days of the New Testament? Will the Trump administration and this Congress let this historic and preventable tragedy happen on their […]
Originally published by Christian Today Franklin Graham has called Christians to stand against the global “Christian genocide”, saying that 100 000 believers are killed every year for their faith. Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse and an outspoken conservative evangelical commentator, was speaking as he opened a four-day conference in Washington […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor The UK Parliament has joined US Secretary of State John Kerry, US House of Representatives, the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in describing the actions of Islamic State (or Da’esh) as genocide. A motion, passed on Wed, April […]
ACDP MP and member of the Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee, Steven Swart, on Tuesday (March 15, 2016) welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment dismissing government’s appeal and finding that its failure to arrest Sudanese President, Omar Al Bashir, was unlawful. Bashir whose regime is implicated in […]
For God so loved the world…. 20 years ago evangelist Michael Cassidy got on a plane in Entebbe, Uganda and sat next to a stranger; a lovely but desperately sad looking young woman from Rwanda. It was just after the genocide in Rwanda when about 75% of the Tutsi minority […]
