South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The Karoo will host three of South Africa’s foremost worship musicians when Joe Niemand, Retief Burger and Dewald Gouws lead praise and worship during the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2014 (KMMC 2014) from April 25 to 27. All three know and love the Karoo. They agree it is an amazing privilege to […]
An East London pastor is using church advertising space to challenge Christian citizens and his congregation to vote their values and not their fears in the coming national election. Pastor Stef Davi of Stirling Worship Centre is displaying a Biblical Issues Voters’ Guide on a notice board facing a street […]
The Church has an important role to play in a “new struggle” in South Africa against the abuse of power by elected leaders, say Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) Church leaders. In a strongly-worded joint statement ahead of the May 7 national election, the church leaders “give notice” of their intent […]
On Tues 18 March at 8pm on TBN Africa, “Watchmen on the Wall” features a debate on corruption with officials from the ANC, DA, ACDP, EFF and Agang at the Unashamedly Ethical Conference in Cape Town. Public and private sector corruption presents the greatest threat to South Africa’s future success. […]
American Pastor Saeed Abedini’s case in Iran has taken a turn for the worse as a result of continual beatings in the country’s Rajai Shahr prison. Saeed has been imprisoned in Iran for his faith since September 2012. More than a week ago he was moved from his jail cell […]
Televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood mega-church in Houston announced on Monday that $600,000 (R6,5m) in Sunday donations were stolen from its safe last weekend. An off-duty Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy, and church employee, noticed the break in around 8:30 am on Monday morning. Investigators believe the robbery occurred sometime between Sunday […]
Originally Published in Christian Today World Vision has released a report written by Syrian children in which they detail their plight and call for stronger intervention from the international community. More than 2.5 million people, half of whom are children, have fled Syria to escape escalating violence in the region […]
Book Review by Val Viljoen MADE TO CRAVE: SATISFYING YOUR DEEPEST DESIRE WITH GOD, NOT FOOD by LYSA TERKEURST The whole issue of our eating habits versus the need to be healthy and /or slim is the subject of a vast array of books, magazine articles, websites, etc. This is […]
Evangelists Daniel Kolenda, the successor of Reinhard Bonnke and Todd White, who is known for healing miracles on the streets, will head up a Christ for all Nations (CfaN) Fire 2014 Conference at African Dream Family Church, Edenvale, Johannesburg from Friday, March 21 to Saturday, March 22. White and Kolenda, […]
Originally published by The Christian Institute A US atheist group is trying to stop two steel beams in the shape of a cross, that emerged amid the rubble at Ground Zero, from being displayed in a 9/11 memorial museum in New York. The two steel beams were found standing upright […]