South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Countdown to Global Day of Prayer starts today Christian groups in Pretoria and Cape Town are uniting to stage major National Day of Prayer events on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, which is also the Global Day of Prayer — a day in which believers around the globe join in prayer […]
The Healing Awakening revival meetings that have been running in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal for more than a month, are moving to Pretoria on Wednesday, May 15. The last service in the AFM Church in Tongaat, where it all started after Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley was invited to minister there for four days from […]
[notice]By ANNA-MARIA LOMBARD — originally published in www.scratchpages.co.za[/notice] It could be you…or the unassuming guy sitting next to you in church…in fact God can download solutions for the world’s problems to anyone who’s ready to lay down their lives to implement His plans. In the case of the thorny problem of cable theft […]
Leading United Kingdom Old Testament scholar, Dr Chris Wright will be running a one-day seminar in Rivonia, Johannesburg on SaturdayJune, 1. Wright, who is the chief architect of the Cape Town Commitment, the most influential evangelical document since the original Lausanne Covenant in 1974, will teach on preaching the Old […]
Based on reports in Citizen, Sowetan Live, allafrica.com, and women.24 blogs The Gauteng Department of Education is piloting a handbook to help educators and parents deal with Satanism, Gauteng Education MEC Barbara Creecy confirmed this week. Creecy, who signed a memorandum of understanding with faith-based organisations on Tuesday (March 18) […]
[notice]Gateway News reporter JOHANITA JORDAAN spoke to Martin Munene, a victim of a human smuggling scam. She also spoke to a Johannesburg church leader who provides spiritual and practical support to many traumatised victims of such scams.[/notice] Kenyan citizen Martin Munene found himself wondering the streets of Johannesburg, traumatised after […]
A public hearing into TopTV’s latest application to launch three 24 hours pornographic television channels will be held in Johannesburg on Thursday, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) says in a notice released today. Organisations that will present submissions at the hearing at Icasa’s offices in Sandton are […]
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is “angry and appalled at the public humiliation, violence and later death meted against a Mozambican taxi driver, Mido Macia, at the hands of the South African Police Services (SAPS) personnel”, says SACC General Secretary Rev Mautji Pataki in a press statement released […]
Women all over South Africa will join some 3 million women worldwide who will pray and worship together during the Woman’s World Day of Prayer (WWDP) on Friday, March 1. This year’s WWDP service was prepared by Christian women of France and the theme is ‘I was a stranger and […]
Originally published in IOLnews A Christian group that wants religious certification and signs on food packaging to be banned, faces an uphill battle against Muslims, Jews, Hindus and millions of members of Christian churches who are opposing the application in the Pretoria High Court. The National Association and Coalition of […]
