Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Friday, 27 May 2016

Wilson Joel Becomes First Nigerian Producer Endorsed By Steinberg



CEO of Doxology Music Wilson Joel has been offered an endorsement deal by German musical software and equipment company Steinberg.

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Lecrae Gives TEDx Talk About Hip-Hop




Lecrae gave a TEDx talk at a locally organized TEDx event in Nashville. His talk was titled “Heroes and Villains: Is hip-hop a cancer or a cure?”

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Columbia Records Signs Lecrae



GRAMMY award-winning hip-hop artist, Lecrae, has inked a deal with legendary record company, Columbia Records.

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Hashtag Entertainment Presents 'Christmas Ball' – An Evening Of ‘Old Skool’ Music, Jazz, Highlife & Afro Pop [@HashtagEntNG]


Hashtag Entertainment (Nig) is having an amazing end of year live music and chill-out event this Sunday 27th December 2015, at the Intercontinental Hotel (The Grand African Ballroom)

Wilson Joel Wins Best Afro Gospel Producer At Maiden Edition Of The Beatz Awards

Prolific producer and CEO of Doxology Music, Wilson Joel has won the award for the Best Afro Gospel Producer at The Beatz Awards which held last night at the Shell Hall of the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos.

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Top Chinese intellectual converts to Christianity


A Bible study group has met in Ran Yunfei's (c) home since 2013, 
but he only recently became a Christian. (Twitter)

 A top Chinese intellectual famed for his pro-democracy activism has converted to Christianity, reports say.

Christians WIPED OUT of Middle East in 10 years

Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

A chilling new report predicts that Christianity could be completely wiped out from the Middle East within a decade.

Monday, 9 November 2015

Michele Bachmann: Bring into Christianity ‘as many Jews as we can'

Michele Bachmann . (photo credit:REUTERS)
 
WASHINGTON — Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann called for an intensified effort to convert Jews to Christianity.

Thousands Raised for Family of 11-Y-O Boy Who Died Saving 7-Y-O Sister's Life

La’Darious Tyres Wylie, 11, (L) and his sister Sha'Vonta, 7, (R)

Thousands of dollars in donations are now pouring in for the family of an 11-year-old boy who sacrificed his life so his 7-year-old sister could escape the deadly hit of an out-of-control vehicle as they waited for the school bus just outside their home in Chester, South Carolina, last Tuesday.

Iraqi Law Forcing Children to Be Muslim Is Driving Christianity's Extinction, Says Bishop

A displaced Iraqi girl, who fled from the violence in Mosul, stands at a school in Baghdad, September 1, 2014. Picture taken September 1, 2014.

An Iraqi law that forces children of Christian converts to be legally recognized as Muslims will lead to Christianity's extinction, says Bishop Rabban al-Qas.

Wis. Church Hosts Outreach Event Linking Christianity to 'Star Wars;' Atheists Welcomed

Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As the seventh film in the popular science-fiction series "Star Wars" is set to premiere next month, First United Presbyterian Church in Wisconsin is preparing to host an event weeks earlier to explore what's common between Christianity and the film. Atheists are welcome, the church says.

Event: "On The Rock" Concert With Gospel Force & Friends | Nov. 15th [@gforcenaija]



Following the release of their single “No One” featuring Eben, Fast rising Rock band, Gospel Force, brings to you, the first Christian Rock music and worship gathering in Lagos – On the Rock Concert.  

Friday, 6 November 2015

Pope Francis says church leaders can’t 'lead life of a pharaoh’

Pope Francis (Wikipedia)
Pope Francis has warned the Roman Catholic church against hypocrisy on the issue of poverty, saying it was impossible to speak about the poor and the homeless and yet lead the “life of a pharaoh”. 

Theological liberalism is tearing Christianity apart

Bishop Michael Curry, the first black presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
A big concern for many conservative or orthodox-minded Catholics during the recent Synod on the Family is that the Catholic Church might be about to go down the same road that has been trodden by Anglicanism over the last few decades and which has led to that communion almost falling apart. 

Well.... James Bond could have been a priest

Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Everybody’s favourite spy could just have easily been a priest had he not chosen the life of a deadly assassin.

Sunday, 1 November 2015

How Christian, Islamic leaders worsen Plateau Crisis – Lawmaker

 
NIGERIA - One of the reasons the repeated ethno-religious crisis in Plateau has not been resolved is that religious leaders in the state do not tell themselves the truth, a lawmaker has said.

Nigeria’s Slain Indigenous Missionaries Leave Legacy of Faith

 
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) Amid ongoing dangers, Christian leaders in Nigeria this month recalled the exemplary faith of indigenous missionaries who gave their lives in areas overrun by Islamic extremist militants.

Priest kidnapped by African rebels celebrates 50 years

Fr Brian O’Kane with his nieces Joanne Daly, Theresa Killoran and nephew Seamus McCaughey.


AN Omagh clergyman who was kidnapped while serving in Nigeria in the 1960s has just marked his 50th year in the priesthood.

School football coach’s prayer habits spark debate on staff's religious rights



A football field in Washington state has become more than a battleground for athletes as the suspension of an assistant coach for praying at midfield after games divided people around the country over the religious rights of school employees.