South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Zimbabwe’s well-known social media activist pastor, Evan Mawarire, responded swiftly to today’s military takeover in Zimbabwe, streaming a “citizens’ broadcast” on Facebook this morning, calling on Zimbabweans to be calm, hopeful, united and prayerful. In his broadcast from Harare, which garnered nearly 60 000 views and thousands of comments in […]
“I am looking forward to seeing hardened criminals and murderers converted and having fathers and sons relationships restored,” said Apostle Donovan Arends — organiser of a family conference in one of South Africa’s toughest prisons. The “Real Men Follow Jesus — Bring Back the Heart of the Fathers to the […]
In a week in which protests against farm murders have highlighted racial tensions in South Africa, a video clip featuring a young white man and a young black man calling for the Church to be united and prayerful in this season, has gone viral on social media. Worship musician and […]
St Albans prison near Port Elizabeth has a reputation for being one of the most violent prisons in South Africa. And 99% of the gangland killings in PE’s northern areas are reportedly orchestrated from its prison cells. It is because of those very problems that God has called for a […]
For two days in early November there is going to be a gathering of note in Stellenbosch with a remarkable lineup of quality international and South Africa Christian music artists and charismatic US-based evangelist Todd White. The event is called the Gathering — because that’s the name that God gave […]
Freedom of Religion SA has issued an urgent call to church groups to challenge “completely untrue and grossly misleading” claims by the CRL Rights Commission that over 45 million Christians support its recommendations for the compulsory licensing of religion. In its official annual report which it presented to parliament last […]
Two significant strategic prayer days — independently called by God in the light of wickedness in the nation — will be taking place at the Union Buildings in Pretoria within days of each other, on Sunday October 1 and Tuesday October 3. Intercessors from around South Africa will join in […]
Senior leaders of churches in Nelson Mandela Bay met in the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Tuesday to urgently address the breakdown in governance in the metro where a council meeting could not be held last Thursday because of a lack of a quorum. The church leaders reminded councillors of […]
The differences between churches and the CRL Rights Commission reached a new level last weekend when the Weekend Post newspaper led with a report on threats by major churches in the Eastern Cape to campaign against political parties which support the CRL’s religious regulation proposals. Freedom of Religion SA, which […]
A vision during a near-death experience during heart surgery in 2004 impacted the course of a Port Elizabeth church leader’s ministry on two significant fronts. Doctors lost him on three occasions during a quadruple heart bypass operation and in that time he experienced entering another realm where Jesus spoke to […]