South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
At 8pm last Sunday night five exhausted men wheeled a heavy wooden cross onto the old Beit Bridge on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border at the end of a 2 000km pilgrimage walk that started in Cape Town. Reini Coetzee, the visionary of the journey, who together with fellow East Londoner, […]
The South African Council of Churches this week expressed concern at reports that government is considering stricter coronavirus lockdown regulations over the weekend and in Cape Town this morning a group of pastors are marching to Parliament to demand that churches be allowed to operate at full capacity. Last week, […]
This week Gateway News received an email with the subject “Letter to the editor — Parishioners against church lockdowns”. I read the letter, which points out illogicalities in lockdown regulations regarding church gatherings and raises questions on appropriate church responses to the rules. We have previously reported on responses to […]
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng did nothing wrong from a biblical, constitutional or political point of view when he spoke about Israel during a webinar last June, said ACDP president Rev Kenneth Meshoe today. “That is why we are convinced he is going to win his appeal,” he said in a […]
Testimonies of God’s responses started coming in six hours after they prayed Last week we reported on how God independently prompted the owners of two Eastern Cape farms to host prayer days for rain on their land on Saturday March 13. This week we report on what happened after the […]
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said last night that even before he had finished reading through a Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) finding against him regarding remarks he made in a webinar last June, God gave him “rock solid” grounds for appeal. At first he was shocked by God seemingly giving him […]
We will publish a detailed report on this matter tomorrow, Monday March 15 During an online thanksgiving service this evening Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng announced he will be appealing against the findings against him by the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) and its order that he apologise unconditionally for remarks he […]
Originally published in Christianity Today A Malaysian court ruled on Wednesday that non-Muslims can use the word Allah to refer to God, in a major decision in a divisive issue for religious freedom in the Muslim-majority country. The High Court decision squashed a 35-year-old government ban on the usage of Allah and […]
At face value last week’s unprecedented decision by the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) to order South Africa’s chief justice to retract and apologise for remarks he made about Israel appears to be the outcome of a fair and transparent disciplinary process. The committee’s speedy investigation of an official complaint against […]
While many parts of South Africa have experienced abundant rain recently, some areas — mainly in the Eastern and Northern Cape — are still in the grip of a prolonged drought. And so, when Eastern Cape farming couple Tommie and Carine van Kerken both independently sensed God tell them to […]