South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Christian Today A final verdict has been postponed in the case of Matthew Grech, a Maltese citizen who fell afoul of his country’s so-called ‘conversion therapy’ laws for sharing his testimony of being an ex-gay Christian. The final verdict had been due on Thursday but was postponed […]
Friends of St George’s Park, a volunteer group on a mission to take back Gqeberha’s (PE’s) historic central park is hosting the RE exhibition, featuring landscape and prophetic artist Wessel Kotzee in the park’s iconic Pearson Conservatory from November 28 to December 7. The first-ever exhibition in the 150-year-old glasshouse […]
A little over a year ago 21-year-old Will Garringer of Columbus, Ohio in the United States started a run club that he hoped would be “a cool little community where we did a devotional beforehand and then we ran together”. Today Run With Christ – which describes itself as “way […]
Originally published in Christian Today Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen is praying that she will finally be exonerated of hate speech charges over her biblical views on marriage and sexuality after the case against her was heard by the Supreme Court today. Räsänen, former Minister of the Interior, was first charged […]
Nelson Mandela Bay pastors, prayer warriors and Christian volunteers who have been pulling together to prepare for an evangelism crusade in the metro’s gang-violence-plagued Northern Areas next week were excited today to see the 5 000 seat crusade tent going up. What began as a vision about two months ago, […]
Twenty Christians were killed, about 2 000 were displaced,1 300 homes were destroyed and two churches were burned down by al-Shabab jihadists during a series of attacks in Nampala Village in northern Mozambique from October 9 to 12, says Open Doors Africa (ODA) in a media release. Local pastors and […]
Yesterday I spoke to Vivienne Myburgh South African director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), who was once again in Israel at a time when history was being made. “It’s amazing that we were here on the 7th of October 2023, an hour and a half away from where […]
ALSO SEE: SANCF asks ConCourt to declare CRL chair’s reappointment unlawful and Legislated ‘self regulation’ of religion amounts to state control — SACOFF, FOR SA Thousands of people joined a national march to the Union Buildings, Pretoria today to protest against what they believe is an unconstitutional attempt by the […]
ALSO SEE: SANCF asks ConCourt to declare CRL chair’s reappointment unlawful The South African Community of Faith-Based Fraternals and Federations (SACOFF) and Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) have both released statements warning that “self regulation” by the religious sector that is enforced by legislation amounts to state control […]
Yesterday marked the second anniversary of October 7, that awful Saturday morning in 2023 when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel where they brutally murdered 1 200 people in their homes and at a music festval, and took 250 hostages to a nightmare of captivity in Gaza. 48 hostages remain of whom […]