South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Relevant Magazine Like most of the world, Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes had most of their 2020 plans put on hiatus by the global pandemic. The famed worship duo have been putting their lockdown time to good use, working on a few renditions of their hugely popular […]
Sipokazi Nxumalo, known as “SK”, releases her debut radio single Jesus, through The Jesus Collective (TJC). Having spent 14 years as narrator and lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir, SK has begun a new chapter of her ministry with a solo career. SK’s unique interpretation of the […]
Throughout generations music has been used as a voice to fight for justice, to spread love, to entertain, even to incite negative lifestyles, like violence. VH Voices of Heaven see themselves as a move of revival whose mission is to make music for God in the earth. VH is a […]
A worship song that we all know and love — but may not know about its African origins — made history this year by becoming the first song to ever have two covers in the Top 10 of the Christian songs category on Billboard last month. Recently versions of Way Maker by Michael […]
In the normal world, when the COVID-19 lockdown is over, churches will once again gather for worship services just like in old times. Aren’t we looking forward to that? Especially to the joy and edification of singing together. This present lockdown gives pastors, song-leaders and church administrators an opportunity to […]
Originally published in Fox News Amy Grant is thankful for having loved ones by her side after she had the “really unique experience of having an unanticipated open-heart surgery”. The singer took to Instagram on Sunday where she revealed the scar from her procedure. The 59-year-old previously shared she had […]
Mariette Davina, a prophetic worship singer and composer who began her music career in South Africa, has released a new album this month that was birthed in her heart after her mother experienced a miraculous healing after she collapsed on November 20 last year and was in a coma for […]
Originally published in Fox News. Contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant underwent open-heart surgery on Wednesday, June 3, to fix a heart condition that the Grammy Award-winning singer has had since birth, according to her publicist. Grant’s rep, Velvet Kelm, said that, per the doctor, her surgery “couldn’t have gone better”. […]
South African-born singer-songwriter Louise Campion, now based in London, has released a new EP called Hold Me Father, in time for Father´s Day month in June. She says she has dedicated the song to her late father, Raymond John Campion, who was a superb pipe organist who led worship at Frere Rd […]
In the 1970s, when the new wave of “praise and worship songs” swept through the churches, there were people who liked them and people who disliked them. “Worship wars” divided congregations. Usually, the older generation wanted to retain hymns, while the younger generation was eager to embrace the new contemporary […]