South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Three years ago Gateway News reported on a Port Elizabeth family who relocated to Tanzania on a mission from God. We recently caught up with them in PE during their annual holiday visit. Pastors Denvar and Rene Marks and their daughters Mercedes, now-14, and Jorda, now-12, were all sure that […]
Six members of a family belonging to the Fulani tribe — a predominantly Muslim, nomadic, cattle-herding people frequently in the news over violent conflicts with farmers — recently became Christians after Jesus revealed himself directly to them in a village in Nigeria’s middle-belt Plateau state. This was disclosed to Gateway […]
Two years ago there were hardly any church leaders speaking out against corruption in government but this week church leaders were at the forefront of marches against corruption throughout the country, ahead of Tuesday’s no-confidence vote which President Jacob Zuma survived by a narrow margin. Nowhere was this remarkable shift […]
Doctors for Life appeals for financial support to fight legal battle to protect youth, society On Monday (July 31 2017) the constitutionality of South Africa’s dagga legislation will be on trial in a major court case which is expected to run for most of August and eventually go all the […]
This is the story of the “miracle safari” – a recent 4 200km mission-impossible road trek from Johannesburg to Mombasa, to meet a tight business deadline. But, to appreciate this prayer-powered story, we need to step back more than 40 years to the day that Steve Kalue was born in […]
Originally published by World Watch Monitor It’s been called the “greatest crisis on the African continent“. The UN’s World Food Programme in mid-June warned that hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds to feed them. It needs $172-million (R2.3-billion) to […]
Religious communities should take up an invitation by a parliamentary committee to comment on a report calling for regulation of religion in South Africa, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in an urgent update emailed to its constituents today. If religious leaders do not respond promptly to the CRL […]
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Originally published in Urban Christian News A robot ‘preacher’ that beams lights from its hands and can give automated blessings to the faithful has been launched in the town that gave fame to Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Five hundred years after Luther published the Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg, […]
Plucky Port Elizabeth primary school teacher Richard Geyer, 27, is halfway into an epic run of 1 000km in 10 days to raise funds for cancer despite a blister on his little toe that flared up on the first day and which has since gone septic. Grit obviously runs in […]