South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Christianity has been responsible for the formation of the bedrock of the political, economic and legal systems that provide the pillars of Western democracy. Yet few would dispute that, during the last 50 years, there has been a steady undermining of the Biblical values that have historically formed the foundations […]
Book Review by Andre Viljoen Good Faith — Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme — by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons More and more people today believe that Christianity is “irrelevant” and “extreme”, say the authors of this book. Society is not only moving away from […]
Originally published in The Christian Institute Christians preaching the Gospel could be caught by upcoming extremism legislation, The Christian Institute has warned. On Tuesday, media reports stated that the Government would announce its extremism Bill in the Queen’s speech on May 18. Responding to the news, The Christian Institute said […]
Originally published in Mission Network News According to a report by Breibart, Rome will dye its Trevi Fountain red on Friday, April 29, in honour of this era’s historic number of Christian martyrs. As of today, there are around 150 million Christians facing persecution across the globe, and it doesn’t […]
Originally published in Charisma News If you started at Genesis 1:1 and kept reading — without stopping until you finished Revelation 22:21 — it would take about 90 hours to read the entirety of the Bible. We know that because, for the past 26 years, Christians from around the country […]
[notice]Michael Swain, Executive Director of FOR SA draws on current events in Norway to show how a legally-entrenched secular humanist worldview affects citizens. South Africans should be concerned about moves to start entrenching this foreign worldview into laws that will radically impact the lives of ordinary people, he warns.[/notice] The […]
Michael Swain –passionate about protecting freedoms that impact on the mission of the Church [notice]Cape Town pastor Michael Swain answers questions (see below) from Gateway News about his calling into an arena that is increasingly capturing news headlines and challenging Christians to respond effectively. Announcing Swain’s appointment, Andrew Selley, Founder […]
Family speak about their pain and their joy after escape to safe country Originally published in World Watch Monitor Although the tiny East African nation of Eritrea has a population of just 6 million, Eritrea is one of the leading sources of refugees in Europe. There are many reasons for […]
Originally published in Christian Telegraph Greg Storman and his family, devout Christians, who have been operating the small grocery store and pharmacy for the past four generations, decided that they could not sell abortion-related drugs, because it was against their deepest convictions to sell drugs that “promote death”, Christian Telegraph […]
Originally published in Christian Today A Norwegian judge has ruled that the baby son of the Bodnariu family should be reunited with his parents. Ezekiel Bodnariu was removed from their custody with his four older siblings by Norway’s controversial Barnevernet or child welfare service last November. The judge also ruled […]