South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
The South African National Christian Forum (SANCF) has asked the Constitutional Court to declare that the reappointment of Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva as chairperson of the CRL Rights Committee “is unlawful, unconstitutional, and invalid”. Bishop Marothi Mshashane chairperson of the SANCF told Gateway News that they filed an urgent application to the […]
Also see: SA Church Defenders leading march against state control of church The CRL Rights Commission is hosting a by-invitation-only event in Johannesburg tomorrow to launch a Section 22 committee which it says will facilitate dialogue on the self regulation of the Christian sector, but which critics say is a […]
The National Alliance for Life (NAL) Conference and March for Life South Africa — both in Durban — and the International Life Chain Sunday event in Cape Town, are all taking place in the first weekend of October. The NAL Conference will be at Bethsaida Ministries International, Bishops Court, Stonebridge […]
Six months into his CrossWalk Africa mission to wheel a wooden cross from Cape Town to Jerusalem, Reini Coetzee’s epic trek is getting very real: he will soon be entering uncharted territory in Zimbabwe. “It’s like a big doorway that I’m going to go through — into the unknown, into […]
“Talk to someone. If not your parents to a friend. There are numbers you can call. Or come to church — we will listen to you. But you have to talk to someone about how you feel. Suicide is not the solution.” So said retired police detective Mike Grobler in […]
By South African Friends of Israel The South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) has raised urgent concerns over the ANC government’s reckless foreign policy decisions, warning that the ruling party’s alignment with authoritarian allies such as Russia, China, and particularly Iran, has left South Africans exposed to devastating economic and […]