South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Algemeiner A dead Gazan child, whose picture made world media headlines claiming him to be a victim of an Israeli airstrike, appears to have been killed by a Hamas rocket that fell short of its target, landing inside Gaza instead of Israel, according to evidence brought to light by anonymous pro-Israel […]
Originally published in BBC News A Christian who was demoted in his job for a comment he wrote on Facebook about gay marriages has won a breach of contract action against his employers. Adrian Smith, 55, lost his managerial position and had a 40% salary cut after saying a gay […]
Originally published in Charisma News An Israeli airstrike killed the commander of the military wing of Gaza’s Hamas rulers Wednesday, Hamas officials and Israel confirmed, in a dramatic resumption of Israel’s policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders. Ahmed Jabari was the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an […]
Originally published in Charisma News A Bible school opens its doors for the first time in months as a declaration is made over loudspeakers at a nearby mosque: “We will never forgive the Christians for not being Muslims. Their institutions have no place in Sudan.” Elsewhere, Christian children are told […]
Top gospel musician Sivuyile “Vovee” Batala is over the moon after being nominated for the SABC Crown Gospel Awards taking place on the November 18 in KwaZulu Natal. Although this is Vovee’s first nomination for an award at national level, it is long overdue, says EC Talent in a media […]
PE FM 87.6 is hosting a bumper Gospel Jazz Festival on December 8 in Happy Valley, Port Elizabeth, says the Christian community radio station in a media release. The festival caters for music lovers over a wide spectrum and will provide an opportunity to approach the festive season, praising and […]
The prayer warfare campaign against suicide jumps off Van Stadens Bridge near Port Elizabeth, will be held on a platform overlooking the bridge — and no longer on top of the bridge. The change of plan for the prayer event on November 24 follows a decision by the National Roads […]
[notice] A fortnightly column by Anna Heydenrych: the third of a series of reflections on the nine fruits of the Spirit (Galations 5:22-23)[/notice] I attended a beautiful beach wedding this past weekend. The bride and groom promised to be faithful to each other until death do them part. They entered […]
Christians in Cape Town are urged to participate in a peaceful, two hour, city centre protest march tomorrow morning against the upcoming Lady Gaga tour of South Africa. Protest co-ordinator, Abraham Warren of Christians For Truth said the march was a call on Christians to take a stand against the […]
Cape Town Christian production company Media Village competed against 22 other teams who entered the recent Cape Town 48 Hour Film Project. “We were given one weekend, a prescribed genre, a given prop, a line of dialogue and character to include in a short film. Over one crazy weekend we […]