By Open Doors SA Open Doors’ International Days of Prayer (IDOP) is a global movement of intercessory prayer for the persecuted Church. From the 1st until the 8th of November 2015, Open Doors, and Christians around the world, will unite in prayer for the persecuted Church worldwide, with a special […]
South Africa
Call for Christians to make official complaints about halaal certification
The coordinator of a national Christian network that focuses on issues pertaining to Islam has has urged Christians to make official complaints to the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) about being forced to buy halaal certified products that fund […]
Conferences addressing children’s hunger to know God
We are living in an age where children are developing a hunger and thirst for God unlike anything seen before, says Esme Schmitt, a children’s pastor who conducts conferences to train people working with and parenting children. Several prophetic words have been released of a billion children who will have […]
Prayer wave gains momentum as thousands heed call to pray for SA on October 28
By Daniel Brink, Jericho Walls Thousands of Christians all over the country gathered in small groups at homes, churches, schools, universities, businesses, and various other public places on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, to pray for South Africa. A recent increase in social unrest, economic decline, moral decay of the Church, […]
The miraculous healing of a devastated pomegranate orchard
The miraculous is one of the ways our Almighty Creator reveals Himself to us. Recently, I heard of a farmer near Somerset East whose pomegranate crop had been destroyed by black frost, which not only wiped out the fruit crop, but two-thirds of his 30 000 trees. However, after prayer […]
‘Hate speech’ comments about former homosexuals referred to HRC
The Commission for Gender Equity (CGE) has asked the Human Rights Commission (HRC) to investigate disparaging comments about former homosexuals that were posted on Facebook by Dr André Bartlett, a gay activist and Dutch Reformed Church minister, and two others, says André Bekker, a former homosexual and founder of New Living Way […]
Pedalling to promote a purpose-geared life
A visit by Frans Cronje, the filmmaker of “Faith like Potatoes” and “Hansie” fame, who lives in Cape Town, to his friend Franco Smith, head coach of the Toyota Cheetahs, ended-up in the two deciding to challenge themselves by cycling from Bloemfontein to Cape Town’s Sea Point! Frans, Franco and […]
DRC: Free to choose, but not free from the consequence of choice
In a move that has been hailed as “historical”, the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (“NG Kerk”) last week Friday gave the thumbs-up to same-sex relationships. In 2007 already, the General Synod decided that membership of the Church should be open to all people, irrespective of their sexual […]
Story behind the cross at the Western Cape Mighty Men
In February this year we published a story about a Cape Town man who smoked and drank heavily who reluctantly accepted an invitation to attend the 2013 Karoo Mighty Men Conference where he was radically transformed by God’s love. And so my curiosity was aroused at the Western Cape Mighty Men Conference […]
‘It’s all about Jesus’ says NCMI leader Tyrone Daniel
[notice]Andre Viljoen interviewed Tyrone Daniel, leader of New Covenant Ministries International (NCMI) at the first-ever NCMI World Equip which was held at Rhema Bible Church, Johannesburg last week. The five-day event to celebrate 35 years of God’s goodness in NCMI and to equip members of partnering churches for Kingdom “impact, […]