South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
What a year of change it has been, shaped by elections, Olympics, war, rising antisemitism, prayer and the Gospel! The headline links, images and edited excerpts below reflect a sprinkling of the news we published in 2024. May you and your loved ones experience peace, hope and refreshing in Jesus […]
South Africa’s historic Government of National Unity is feeling the heat as the two biggest members, the ANC and DA, remain at odds over contentious clauses of the Bela Act on the eve of the Friday December 13 deadline set by President Cyril Ramaphosa for parties to resolve their differences. […]
By Garth van Niekerk For the past three years, a joyful team of kids and their pastor at Melkbos Fellowship (https://www.thefellowship.co.za/), have been writing and recording Bible stories for young ones (ages 6-13 years). While the focus was on getting the Word to kids “out there”, it’s been a wonderful […]
Special Report by Ngqobizitha Donga, Stefanie Kotze and Ryan Smit In a generation where success has been intertwined with neglecting individual identity in Christ and conforming to worldly stereotypes, Wilberforce Academy seeks to engraft an understanding of how Christ is the centre of everything, hence building effective ambassadors who will […]
Plans are in motion to host a Christian national day of prayer and repentance at Africa’s largest football stadium – the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg on Saturday March 22 next year. The focus of the “Awakening South Africa National Day of Prayer and Repentance” event will be on revival and “on […]
About 300 people protested outside the City of Johannesburg Council Chambers in Braamfontein, yesterday, against the proposed renaming of Sandton Drive after Leila Khaled, a Palestinian activist who took part in plane hijackings in the 1960s and 70s and was linked with the massacre of Christian pilgrims in Israel in […]
By James Thomson — Originally published in Christianity Today November 8 started off as a normal Friday for Ryan Koher. The 33-year-old missionary pilot was at his desk in a hangar at Mission Aviation Fellowship’s (MAF’s) headquarters in Nampa, Idaho, where he had been working for several months. But then […]
By David Parsons, ICEJ senior vice president and spokesman The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is appalled by the shameful decision by the three-judge panel of the International Criminal Court on Thursday to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes […]
Originally published in All Africa News Archbishop Thabo Makgoba on Monday announced an inquiry into whether the Anglican Church in Cape Town has met its obligation to keep its members safe from abuse. He was preaching in Cape Town after the publication of a report in Britain that a former […]
God’s Word was repeatedly spoken out loud from Genesis to Revelation across South Africa in October as five different Bible reading marathons were successfully completed during the month. Kariega (Uitenhage) feedback Bible Reading Marathon pioneer Illona de Wit said their event at Spirit Reign Ministries, Kariega (Uitenhage), from October 23 […]