South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
With children in many parts of the world stuck at home due to Covid-19 lockdown regulations Bethel Music is streaming its family feature movie Bright Ones for free from today until April 21. The uplifting film which can be streamed by clicking here is about a group of kids at a performing […]
South African gospel artist and producer Spencer J Kennedy, last week released his debut single The Fight Is Over throughout South Africa. Born and raised in Cape Town since the age of 10, and after a prophesy over his life, Spencer knew that he had a God-given mandate: first to […]
Worship ministries across South Africa are currently partnering in providing Christians an opportunity to join in 15 days of live, online worship sessions. “We will fix our eyes on Christ and hear what HE says during this time of crisis,” says a post on the Worship South Africa Facebook page […]
Originally published in NBC News. A federal judge in Los Angeles on Tuesday overturned a 2019 jury verdict that found pop singer Katy Perry’s song Dark Horse improperly copied a 2009 Christian rap song. Judge Christina A Snyder wrote that the individual elements of the Christian rap song Joyful Noise […]
As the recent illness of Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson has shown that no one is immune from COVID-19, now word comes that five-time Grammy Award-winning Christian singer Sandi Patty has been diagnosed with the coronavirus too. A spokeswoman for Patty told CBN News she is in stable […]
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. Many Christians, unable to congregate for worship after the government banned meetings of over 100 people, have joined thousands who are congregating in shopping malls. That’s […]
Multiple award-winning Jamaican gospel singer Chevelle Franklyn, is set to release Go In Your Strength, the debut worship single from her full-length album South Wind Vol 1, globally on April 3. Recorded in South Africa, the 13-track album features the voices of South African Gospel singer Ntokozo Mbambo. Franklyn co-produced […]
True-life Christian love story, I Still Believe , which tells the story of award-winning Christian singer Jeremy Camp and his first marriage to Melissa Lynn Henning-Camp who died in 2001, less than a year after they were wed, launches in South Africa on Friday March 20. Country singer Shania Twain plays the role […]
Hugh Wetmore is a songwriter and student of worship trends. He invites you to join the worship conversation by commenting on his monthly column. The other Sunday I listened to the world news before coming to our worship service. The news told of those destructive fires in Australia, of floods […]
Straight off her collaboration with Benjamin Dube, singer, songwriter and former Joyous Celebration lead singer HLE, also known to many as Hlengiwe Ntombela, released her debut solo single Dwala last Friday — and it went straight to number one on the iTunes charts. The iTunes success was achieved amid some major […]