South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The CRL Rights Commission is hosting a by-invitation-only event in Johannesburg tomorrow to launch a Section 22 committee which it says will facilitate dialogue on the self regulation of the Christian sector, but which critics say is a bid to revive a failed attempt to regulate religion in SA. Conspicuously […]
The Awakening South Africa prayer movement which launched with a national day of prayer and repentance at the FNB Stadium on March 22 is hosting a follow-up campaign from Rosh Hashanah (September 22) to Yom Kippur (October 2). Awakening SA visionary Rachel Kalidass said that when God first spoke to […]
Fresh Church in Windhoek, Namibia recently hosted a Bible Reading Marathon in which 102 people teamed up to read the whole Bible out aloud over approximately 91 hours. Exhausted but elated Fresh Church pastors Jaco Pretorius and Elsabe Horn said in an interview afterwards that they will definitely do another […]
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) “firmly rejects the false and defamatory claims made by Mrs Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva” at a CRL Rights Commission press conference on Thursday, says FOR SA in a press release. After the press conference, CRL chair Mkhwanazi-Xaluva went to Hillbrow Police Station to open a […]
The state of our nation has been a cause for concern for a long time. The high levels of unemployment, violence, crime, corruption and maladministration all indicate a nation in dire need of nothing less than a miracle. For some people, the mounting challenges facing the nation, have become a […]
The South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) commends the Ophthalmological Society of South Africa (OSSA) for taking a principled stand against an attempt by the Islamic Medical Association (IMA) to exclude a distinguished Israeli paediatric ophthalmologist, from the OSSA 2025 Congress in Sandton, Johannesburg this week, says sazf national spokesperson Rolene […]
By Gerda Potgieter, Devoted Magazine The Eduplex School in Pretoria and the Domino Servite School (DSS) in rural KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have again both achieved an impressive 100% matric pass rate for 2024, continuing their legacy of excellence. Hundreds of kilometres apart, with different histories and opportunities, both are independent Christian […]
The upcoming Awakening South Africa National Day of Prayer at Repentance was officially launched on Wednesday at a historic church in Sharpeville, Vaal, where a mighty revival broke out 70 years ago. Wednesday’s launch followed a recent well-attended event to raise a prayer altar at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, the […]
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 […]