South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Church leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) were united in an ambitious plan to transform the city over the next five years, said Transformation Christian Network (TCN) executive member Trevor Jennings. “We’ve lost a lot of ground. And if we, as the Church, are going to take up our responsibility […]
There will be no Mighty Men Conference (MMC) in the Western Cape this year it was announced today but planning for the Bushveld MMC in Limpopo in March and the Karoo MMC in the Eastern Cape in April are forging ahead. Announcing the Western Cape decision today, Radio Tygerberg CEO […]
Every day of 2012 intercessors will spend 30 minutes to half an hour at the Union Buildings, Pretoria, praying for the South African government. At least that is the ambitious goal of a prayer team known as the Pretoria Prayer Force (PPF) which is mobilising local Christians to participate in […]
[notice]Andre Viljoen interviews theologian, pastor and author, Dave Doveton, about his book The Way of Balaam which is reviewed in our books section. Doveton believes God called him to write the book and to a mission of alerting Christian leaders to an old evil that poses a present danger to […]
The Independent Communications Authority (Icasa) has turned down Top TV’s application to launch a new, standalone hardcore pornography package of channels. Icasa has said it will provide reasons for its decision withing 30 days. The Icasa decision brings to an end a stormy two months battle during which South Africans […]
Thirty nine years ago the landmark US Supreme Court ruling known as Roe vs Wade gave American women the right to choose to abort during the first three months of pregnancy. The ruling purportedly acknowledged women’s constitutional right to privacy. If the killing of a million babies in the womb […]
Forty one Irish volunteer builders are rapidly turning an ambitious community upliftment dream into a reality in the impoverished, shackland township of Missionvale, Port Elizabeth. “It’s a miracle”, said Missionvale Care Centre Academy principal Pastor Russel Viljoen as the industrious Irishmen — seemingly oblivious to a relentless heatwave in PE […]
The good news is that the Christian blockbuster movie, Courageous, opens in South Africa on Saturday January 27. The bad news is that it is only being screened in five cities. The film, which is a call to fathers to be real fathers, and which has significantly impacted hundreds of […]
As women join together in the Karoo town of Middelburg next weekend to seek a closer walk with God they will be encouraged to know that men in the area will be praying continuously for them for 40 hours from 5pm on Friday (January 27) to 9am (January 29) on […]
Transformational entrepreneur Patrick Kuwana hopes that a marketplace business conference his company is hosting in Johannesburg on February 4 will inspire delegates to apply Biblical principles in the business arena. “It is not a feel good conference. It is an action-oriented conference for people who are hungry to understand their […]