South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
South Africa is a country with more than 2 million children who have been orphaned, abandoned or placed into child protection because their parents cannot care for them. For an estimated 500 000 of those children, adoption is their only option for long-term family care, and to avoid growing up […]
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga’s statement that parents can conditionally opt out of the new Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum is “laced with arrogance and is deceitful, disrespectful and insulting to parents”, says ACDP leader Rev Kenneth Meshoe. “For the Minister to say that parents have a choice to […]
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga raised hopes this week that concerned parents will be able to opt out of the new Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum it plans to implement in public schools next year. But, “unfortunately”, the minister’s undertaking, in a written reply to questions posed in parliament by […]
Originally published in South African Jewish Report The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) formally adopted Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) principles against Israel at its annual conference in September 2019, closely following the Anglican Church of South Africa’s decision to do so in September. The Methodist Church has more than […]
An October 31 campaign to take back Halloween for Jesus developed into a global live-streaming event equipping people to pray for revival in their communities, said Warren Horak of Father’s Heart International Ministries. It started after he sent out a prayer event notice via social media advising that Halloween had […]
By Canon Matiisetso Libetso, chairman Anglicans Ablaze organising committee Anglicans from across Lesotho and from South Africa last month attended an Anglicans Ablaze Conference at the Anglican Cathedral of St Mary and St James in Maseru. It was the second Anglicans Ablaze Conference hosted by the Anglican Diocese of Lesotho and […]
In spite of the worst drought in generations, a group in the Karoo town, Middelburg, decided to go on with a practice that looked insane in the circumstances — a flower festival in the middle of a severe drought! Middelburg’s annual Flower Festival, organised by the interdenominational ladies group, the […]
A distress call has gone out for cash donations to help put food on the table of Sutherland farmers who are struggling to survive in a crippling drought that is now in its seventh year. “Onbeperkte Menswees”, a non-profit organisation which plans to provide grocery parcels to farmers in the […]
Parents, school governing body and teacher organisations, and political parties are up in arms about the Department of Basic Education’s lack of consultation on implementing Comprehensive Sexuality Education. But the department itself appears to have adopted a dismissive attitude and is happy with its level of consultation, says Freedom of […]