South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The winning films entered into the 2011 Transforming Stories International Film Festival were announced in Pretoria recently. The annual competition was launched in Cape Town in 2010 and this year attracted 181 entries from 19 countries on five continents. The top awards went to:Music Videos: “Wholehearted”Short Films: “The Desperate”Documentary Films: […]
Pay-TV broadcaster TOP TV plans to add three hardcore pornography channels to its boquet in 2012 in an “about turn” that has surprised observers and been sharply criticised by Christian organisations. On Digital Media (ODM), Top TV’s operator in South Africa has concluded an agreement with Playboy TV to carry […]
[notice]It’s not every day that we are presented with a tool that can be used to make a significant impact in fighting one of the greatest evils in our society. The forthcoming movie Courageous does put such a tool in our hands[/notice] On Thursday December 1, Humble Pie Entertainment and […]
Christians in cities in South Africa and around the world will unite for an hour of public prayer for their nations from 7.14 pm to 8.14pm tomorrow (December 1) as they participate in the global 7:14 prayer initiative. Named after the inspirational intercessory Bible verse, 2 Chronicles 7:14, and timed […]
[notice]Movie reviews by Andre Viljoen[/notice] I recently received four Christian movie DVDs from Brettian Productions. As I watched these well-crafted, entertaining films it struck me that there has indeed been a welcome, upwards trend in Christian movie making. Many more films are being made for Christian viewers, and the production […]
Representatives of Christian and Muslim communities attended a meeting at the Standard Bank Arena in Johannesburg today to take a stand against the killing of police members. At the gathering, which was called by Major General JT Pharasi, Commander of the Hillbrow Cluster of the South African Police Service (SAPS), […]
[notice]Help us protect this heritage building — members[/notice] Brazen thieves have been relentlessly stripping the Holy Trinity Church in Central, Port Elizabeth, of copper and lead fittings , causing serious damage to the historic stone building. In a series of night-time assaults the thieves have stripped lead lining and copper […]
A petite Eastern Cape teenager who is studying Messianic Judaism is one of the 10 finalists in the international Most Influential Girl Kitesurfer 2011 competition. Michelle Smith, 19, is the only South African on the list and is currently in 4th position overall. The competition ends on Tuesday (November 22) […]
A huge church building that has been taking shape on a major Port Elizabeth intersection for the past year, came gloriously alive during a joyous thanksgiving celebration service on October 30. The new 2 850 seat Victory Ministries International (VMI) church auditorium, which is under construction on the corner of […]
Bibles and Christian books are now on sale 24/7 at select Sasol petrol station stores in Port Elizabeth. And for Operation Mobilisation co-ordinator, Fred van der Westhuizen, coming up with the novel book sales idea, really was a case of thinking outside of the box. “I have lots of OM […]