South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Gospel Herald Muslims radicals responsible for performing the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a 14-year-old Christian girl have asked for forgiveness and embraced the faith they once hated, a new report has revealed. Over the weekend, Muslims in West Africa arrived at the house of Yoonus, a […]
Originally published in Christian Today The pastor of a church in eastern Uganda and eight of his parishioners remain missing and feared dead or kidnapped two weeks after the church was attacked by a mob of Muslims, the Morning Star News reported. The mob turned the church into a den […]
Originally published in Christian Today More than 3 500 Muslim refugees have turned to Christ and been baptised in Germany in the last two years, a new survey reveals. Churches report that many of the refugees being baptised had converted in their home countries such as Syria and Iraq, and […]
Originally published in Times Live The population of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa will increase dramatically despite projections the total number around the world will largely remain the same‚ according to a Pew Research Center survey. Nearly half of the world’s Christians already reside in Africa and the Latin America-Caribbean region. […]
By Dory P — Originally published in Persecution Blog With the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) in 2014, and many terrorist killings already this year, it can be easy to focus on the negative. Instead, several Iranian Christian leaders worked together to share eight reasons why Muslims, particularly […]
Originally published in Christian Life News A Christian revival is touching the northernmost reaches of Africa. In a region once hostile to the gospel, now tens of thousands of Muslims are following Jesus. As the sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea, Muslims across Northern Africa are converting to faith in […]
“A Muslim leader in Algeria said if Christians truly lived as Christians there would be no other religion on earth.” Church unity a key to revival in nation ‘There are no denominations in Algeria!” said Operation Mobilisation (OM) Field Manager Rev Youssef Ourahmane. All Christians in the north African nation […]
Originally published in Aina Hundreds of Muslims came out of mosques today with hammers and destroyed a social services building belonging to the Coptic Church while chanting Islamic slogans. Security forces arrived after the building was completely razed. The 100 square meters social services building in the village of Fanous, […]
[notice]A view that Islam does not pose a threat to Christianity because only a small fraction of Muslims are radical could cost the West dearly, writes the author of an analysis in InContextMinististries‘ A World in Motion, Issue 61.[/notice] The White House is now calling the assault on the American […]
Believers assaulted, churches burned, and websites hacked By Open Doors News Across much of the Muslim world, more than two weeks of backlash to the internet video “Innocence of the Muslims” has occasionally been directed at Christians, from computer hacks to church burnings. It can be difficult to sort deliberate […]