South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Lyndsey Koh — Originally published in Mission Network News Idris*, a staunch Muslim in a 90%-Muslim area of Nigeria, was so opposed to the borehole and other services local Christian missionaries provided that he ordered his wife not to drink of the new well water. According to Christian Aid […]
Ajith Fernando, a theologian in Colombo, is teaching director of Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka, and author of Discipling in a Multicultural World (Crossway 2019). Following the brutal bombings on Easter Sunday across the nation of Sri Lanka, which killed at least 320 people, he declares that God gives Christians the freedom to […]
Originally published in CBN News A man is helping take the gospel to the four corners of the earth by planting the first church a town in Kosovo has seen in 700 years. It’s a story with an unlikely beginning. Urim Bogaj grew up in a Muslim family that hated […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen Three years ago I reviewed Nabeel Qureshi’s first book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus , in which this American born and bred former Muslim tells the fascinating story of his conversion to faith in the Jesus Christ of the bible. This process took several years during which […]
Originally published in CBN News Hundreds of Nigerian Muslim and Christian youth stormed a government building in Abujah this week to stop Sharia law from ruling their nation. Legislatures passed a bill that many fear will mean the Islamisation of Nigeria. The measure, sponsored by Hon Abdullahi Balarabe Salame, was […]
[notice]’Brother Marko’ a Muslim background believer and missionary to South Africa from Turkey reports on a prophetic word for South Africa that God laid on his heart.[/notice] On the weekend of April 29 to May, I was at the Mighty Men Conference in the Karoo. However, about two days before […]
Originally posted in Christian Today Despite the daily news of the persecution of Christians around the world by Islamist groups, there is another, lesser-known story of growing numbers of Muslims around the world who are turning to Christ as Lord. Missionary David Garrison’s book, A Wind in the House of […]
Saeed Abedini, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a brutal Iranian prison for his Christian faith, came to Christ at age 20. A devout Muslim at the time, he had found a Bible and started reading it. One night, he was awakened three times by a voice that said, […]
[notice]UK-based South African-born journalist Charles Gardner reports from the At the Crossroads conference in Jerusalem[/notice] Now Ali wants to help re-unite the sons of Abraham A Turkish Muslim who made a pilgrimage to Mecca in a desperate attempt to get his life back on track returned as a Christian to […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen SEEKING ALLAH, FINDING JESUS — A DEVOUT MUSLIM’S JOURNEY TO CHRIST by NABEEL QURESHI In this book, Nabeel Qureshi tells first of his Islamic heritage. He is the son of Pakistani born parents who came as adults to America. They passed on their great love […]