South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Christian Headlines The Bible app YouVersion celebrated a major milestone this week with its 500 millionth install, making it the only faith-based app ever to reach that mark. The 13-year-old app launched in 2008 as one of only 200 free apps in the iOS App Store and quickly grew […]
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 […]
Written by Mark Roberts on Nov 8 2021 Colossus of Rhodes. (PHOTO: flickr) The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic statue of the Titan, Helios: The sun god, who stood 100 feet (30.48m) tall and rested on a marble pedestal, fifty feet (30,24m) high. The statue stood in the Greek city […]
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 […]
Digital evangelism pioneer FEBA South Africa has recently established a new radio studio, Litala FM, in Blantyre, Malawi. This is the seventh radio station in Africa of this radio and online ministry which is transforming rural villages across the continent through the Gospel. The stations are Radio FOT, Hope Radio, […]
Julita Lambrechts who inspired Gateway News readers earlier this year with her ‘Jesus Take the Wheel’ series of articles on her God adventures in SA and Namibia, has just completed an autobiography on the long and eventful road she has travelled with the Lord. The book’s foreward, penned by Louis […]
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 […]
Originally published in The Christian Post One of America’s longest-standing television hosts, televangelist Pat Robertson is stepping down as the host of the Christian Broadcasting Network, The 700 Club. In an announcement Friday, the 60th anniversary of the first live CBN broadcast, the 91-year-old founder of the network said he will focus […]
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 […]