South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
More than 100 000 Kaya 959 listeners tuned in to watch the annual Soul Inspired Concert this month. Produced by Kaya 959 and supported by Spar, this popular concert staged in December showcased SA’s biggest Gospel and soul stars, cementing its status as an annual highlight for Gauteng music fans. […]
The Chosen team have done it again, breaking new barriers with their movie, Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers which has broken box-office records in the US and made it possible to stream the film for free to a global audience. The Christmas special, a musical which tells the Nativity […]
Africa’s most-celebrated Gospel star has been honoured with another prestigious award. But her early years were marked by suffering and rejection and her life is a testimony of how God turned her life around, writes Neziswa Kanju President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on Thursday, November […]
Originally published in Aleteia. Hillsong Worship is back with their first full-scale release since 2018. The new album, These Same Skies, features 11 original songs from some of the most talented minds of the group. The record is already available now across all digital platforms, but a CD release is coming on […]
In my last column I traced the changes that have taken place in the Church’s worship services. For the most part these were neutral’ changes. They were more superficial cultural changes that did not affect the deeper levels of our Christian being. We observed movements from formal liturgies to freer […]
Originally published in The Roys Report The contemporary Christian music industry survived scandals, pushback from televangelists and the wholesale disruption of the record industry over the past 50 years and kept rolling along. Then last spring, Covid-19 brought it all to a halt. Artists who’d spent decades on the road […]
By Alani Coetsee Have you ever wondered whether we are deserving of the fullness of God’s love? Whether we have earned it? Or even whether we are good enough to receive such a gift? In his latest single, Crazy Love, singer-songwriter Charl Folscher addresses this question — and concludes that despite deserving the […]
During the Heritage Month of September we remembered our roots, as a nation. We traced our national evolution from what was to what now is, and we have been imagining our future. The one dominant word has been “change”. So it’s a good time to remind ourselves of our journey as […]
Revelation Enterprises (R.E.), Doxa Deo’s Global Worship and Arts Movement is set to release their debut Afrikaans Album, titled Tot In Ewigheid (Forever) in October. With 12 original songs penned by nine of R.E.’s songwriters and recorded by 10 anointed, young and vibrant worship leaders, this album promises to be […]
By NueLight You know him as the man who changed the lives of thousands of youngsters with his youth camps; you know him for his Psalms 1&2, In Verwondering and In die Hemel is die Heer. You know him from Loftus vir Jesus and you know him as the husband […]