South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Durban Christian Centre’s Overflow Jesus Conference begins on Sunday (July 2) finishing on Wednesday July 5 in the Jesus Tent, in Mayville Durban. The featured speakers are Apostle Harunah Goroh, formerly from Nigeria but who now has a thriving church in Windhoek, Namibia; Pastor Nick van der Westhuizen, from Johannesburg, Dr […]
Parliamentary portfolio committees this week heard the conflicting views of the CRL Rights Commission and the religious sector — represented by Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) — on how to deal with commercialisation of religion and other abuses in the religious arena. At a workshop at parliament on Tuesday […]
Inspirational athlete and outspoken Jesus-follower Wayde van Niekerk, 24, did it again — as he set a new world-best time for the 300m at the Ostrava Golden Spike yesterday, surpassing world-bests by Michael Johnson for the second time in less than a year. His 30.81 seconds at Ostrava broke Johnson’s […]
Ntomboxolo Matiwane asked Port Elizabeth businessman and former school friend Thamsanqa Ngamlana to share his testimony. This is his emotional rollercoaster of a story. Having been raised by a single parent under challenging circumstances I will not lie and say I was never a happy child. I had been taught […]
Photos: Keanan Messias and Joshua Cambell More than 5 000 young people from Cape Town and surrounds joined in worship, praise and renewing their lives in God at the #YTAUnite event at the Belville Velodrome last Saturday. Kyle driver, chairman of Youth Transformation Africa (YTA) said “we saw 5 000 young people lift […]
Originally published in forsa.org.za A mere six weeks after the case was argued in court, the Johannesburg High Court this morning delivered its much-anticipated judgment in the case of OGOD v six public schools regarding religion in schools. REACTION TO RULING FEDSAS The Federation of Governing Bodies of South Africa […]
Originally published in CBN News The former Special Forces soldier who ran more than 100m under ISIS fire in Iraq to rescue a little girl said God’s Word inspires him to risk his life to save others. Dave Eubank has become famous for the video and pictures of his heroic […]
Despite serious concerns expressed by the South African faith community, the CRL Rights Commission is heading to parliament today (Tuesday June 27) to present their final report on the “Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People’s Belief Systems” to several portfolio committees, says Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) in […]
The annual Bonnaroo music festival in an open field in Manchester, Tennessee, draws tens of thousands of people from all of the US for four days of music, drugs, drunkenness and debauchery, says Larry Tomczak, in an article in Charisma News. Not exactly the sort of place for Christians to […]
Following the impactful “It’s Time” event on May 22, farmer-evangelist Angus Buchan is set to address the Mighty Men Conference at Amanzimtoti’s Kuswag High School from July 7 to 9. Around a million South Africans attended the It’s Time national day of prayer called by Buchan in Bloemfontein and the […]