South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Stumbling upon a confronting quotation Several years ago now, while browsing through some books in a large bookstore in Cape Town, I came across Hermann Giliomee’s impressive tome titled The Afrikaners. As I was trying to balance it in the palm of one hand, it fell open to page 208, […]
Francois van Niekerk, founder of the Mergon group, was announced as the Kaapstad Sakekamer Business Leader of the Year (Sakeleier van die Jaar) 2018, at a recent gala evening hosted in Cape Town. “Francois is an exemplary leader, and we are honoured to have him as our Business Leader of […]
The question that has been on the mind of millions of South Africans was answered today, with the announcement that the It’s Time Pretoria mass prayer meeting on October 27 will take place on Rhino Park Airfield just outside Pretoria East. For arguably the single biggest event ever held in […]
Originally published in Urban Christian News Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria have executed a female aid worker on video and warned that others, including a Christian teen girl, are next. The video, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, was released by the Barnawi faction of Boko Haram. In it, the terrorists […]
Christian voices opposed to this week’s ruling by the Constitutional Court South Africa’s youth risk paying the highest price for this week’s landmark Constitutional Court ruling decriminalising use of dagga by adults in private, said Johan Claassen of Doctors for Life International (DFL). Expressing deep disappointment at the judgement, on […]
Originally published in Christian Today A huge slogan painted on a bare Mexican hillside is in the running for no less than four Guinness World Records, according to Evangelical Focus. The Hill of the Bible was created in 1987 as a project of the evangelical churches of Cuidad Juarez, the […]
Euthanasia activist Sean Davison might face multiple murder charges, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday. The founder of euthanasia advocacy group Dignity SA was in court on a charge of premeditated murder in connection with the death of Anrich Burger in Cape Town in 2013 in an alleged assisted suicide […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14 September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its […]
Experts in various different fields from all over South Africa spoke at the Learning to Love Conference in Durbanville, Cape Town last Saturday, in an event aimed at equipping the church to better love people struggling with same-sex attraction. Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, the Legal Counsel of Freedom of Religion South […]
On Thursday, November 28 the Constitutional Court will hear Freedom of Religion South Africa’s (FOR SA’s) application for leave to appeal a High Court judgment last year which declared parents’ historic common law defence of “moderate and reasonable chastisement” to be unconstitutional. “While FOR SA is utterly opposed to any […]