South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
“Not on our watch!” Bishop Dalton Adams, ACDP member of parliament, said to a big group of riled-up protestors in front of the Department of Basic Education‘s offices in Pretoria last Saturday. A march was held last in the city to protest against the proposed introduction of comprehensive sexuality education […]
The Christian owners of a Cape Town jewellery business which has been attacked on social media and received hate mail after they recently refused to make an engagement ring for a gay couple have posted a statement on their website explaining their position. In their statement, the owners of Craig […]
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is having to put out fires again after it came to light that a recent Twitter campaign to promote reading for children, included provocative images of scantily clad and (apparently) naked women and couples in bed. Not surprisingly, this campaign has sparked fresh concern […]
More than 100 pastors, community leaders and business leaders gathered in Lilongwe, Malawi last Thursday for a special repentance conference called by Christian leaders against a backdrop of ongoing unrest in the country over allegedly rigged presidential elections on May 21. The conference at the Simama Hotel was the main […]
André Bekker, who heads up New Living Way Ministry is calling on former homosexuals in South Africa to join an advocacy group called “Voice of the Voiceless, South African Ex-Gays” which he plans to launch in early October. Bekker, a former homosexual himself, says the most important voice in the […]
A Culture of Recovery Conference that will take place in Cape Town at the end of August will seek to ensure that no one is left behind in the delivery of effective prevention and addiction intervention services. This is according to Karin Ussher from Project Exodus, which is described as […]
South Africans across the religious spectrum are invited to participate in a march in Pretoria on Saturday August 17 to protest against the radical sexualisation of school children through the proposed introduction of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in schools. Organisers of the protest action, the ACDP, say they aim to fight […]
The first leg of a national road trip to find Kingdom solutions to South Africa’s many challenges has left Mkhangeli Matomela and Jacques Malan astounded by what God has already initiated in different communities. Starting in Cape Town on July 20, the pair visited nine cities and towns in eight […]
South Africans came in numbers to hear Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng speak on business and leadership at a breakfast meeting at Rivers Church in Sandton, Johannesburg last Friday. Looking at the diverse crowd who were clearly hungry for hope and direction in the midst of the current leadership crisis in […]
The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) should take urgent and appropriate action to withdraw its approval of a gay lifestyle, says Christian leader Dr Arno van Niekerk in a letter of concern to the leadership of the DRC. In a letter sent to the DRC synod last week on behalf of […]