It was Easter Sunday and I had been invited to participate in Radio 702’s program Believe It Or Not, hosted by Kate Turkington. The subject was: Christophobia. Little did I realise that the explosive, and mostly hostile, reactions from callers would demonstrate the reality of Christophobia better than anything I could have said on the programme.
What Christophobia? The program host, Kate Turkington, began by expressing her surprise that I had written an article on the subject of Christophobia. She said that she had never heard of such a thing and challenged me to justify the statement, that she quoted from our article on the www.christianaction.org.za website:“Many of our freedoms are at risk. There is a rising tide of anti-Christian intolerance worldwide.”
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Volume 4 - 1989
American economic sanctions have decimated the missionary effectiveness of South African Christians. Africa is more than three times the size of the United States of America. The 600-million Africans are 10% of the world’s population in 20% of the world’s land surface. Yet for the more than 2000 ethno-linguistic groups in Africa, there is only one missionary-sending people. Out of the 55 countries of Africa, only South Africa is a missionary-sending nation. Volume 2 - 1993
A Frontline team’s outreach to Ciskei in November 1992 led to the wife of the Head of State travelling to Cape Town and participating in the ten day Biblical Worldview Seminar. Upon her return she organised the first BWS to be held in Ciskei and invited us to present the course at their capital, Bisho. ![]() “Stretching, mind renewing, empowering, hectic, fun, an adventure!” That is how one of the participants described the latest Great Commission Course. They came from as far afield as California and the Congo, from Arizona to Zimbabwe, from Zambia and from all over South Africa. We had several pastors and career missionaries, some heads of ministries and leaders of church groups and pioneers in missions. Some were missionary candidates at the beginning of their training, others experienced veterans who had been in the field for decades. Some had a business background, one was a nurse, another a computer programmer, another had been a commander in the Navy. The mix of nationalities, cultures, languages, backgrounds, characters, skills and personalities made for a dynamic and interesting Great Commission Course (GCC). Celebrating a Holocaust?
The Weekend Argus (03 February 07) Life section included an article “10,000 Abortions a Week in the first decade!” as a cause for “victory and celebration.” Correspondent Sherree Roussow described the legislation enacted by Nelson Mandela on 1 February 1997 as “the most liberal abortion laws in the world.” The article declared the abortion legislation introduced in South Africa 10 years ago: “the most amazing victory for women. It’s a celebration…”!! This seems to be a bizarre perspective on a tragic situation. I would not have thought that poisoning, dismembering or strangling little babies in the womb was any cause for celebration! Volume 1 - 1991
The KwaSizabantu Mission is widely recognised as the most successful mission station in Africa. During 2lst-25th January it was also the host of an historic Ministers Conference which drew together 750 ministers, evangelists and missionaries from 71 Christian denominations and organisations to discuss some vital issues facing South Africans. The future of Christian civilization in Southern Africa is in jeopardy. As South Africa reels from the effects of hundreds of massacres and daily terrorist atrocities, civil war seems unavoidable. The cumulative effect of decades of terrorist attacks, international sanctions, boycotts, economic sabotage and a relentless media war have undermined the entire social fabric.
Volume 1 - 1989
Sometimes, Frontline Fellowship members have engaged in literature distribution and personal evangelism outside radical churches. By making such a bold stand for Christ, we often are confronted by hostility and threats. This is an example of a heated exchange that developed during one of our literature evangelism outreaches when I was surrounded by a mob of comrades: Volume 4 - 1989
THE TRAGEDY Southern Africa is torn apart by terrorism and unrest, landmines and bomb blasts, crime and violence. Ritual murders by witchdoctors, human sacrifices and cannabilism for “muti” (medicine) are still commonplace. Desecration of churches by Cubans in Angola, bodies thrown down disused mine shafts by the North Korean-trained 5th brigade in Zimbabwe, and British-trained pilots in British-made jet combat air-craft bombing, rocketing and strafing villages in Mozambique with bullets made in Birmingham, England — these scenes are all part of the tragic picture of Southern Africa today. AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY WITH 28 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN ASSISTING CHURCHES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN WRITES IN GLOBAL GLACE (AUGUST 89).
SCREW-TAPE SCENARIO If C.S. Lewis was around today he might have penned a sequel to “Screw-tape Letters.” His principal character would have been promoted downward. Uncle Screw-tape is now the Under-secretary of the Department of Disinformation. He’s working out of a basement office in the Kremlin. His nephew, Wormwood, is on TDY (temporary duty orders) in Washington, assigned to the State Department. Atypical mail intercept might reveal the following: |
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