South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Parliamentarians who met on Tuesday to discuss their response to a report by the CRL Rights Commission calling for religious licensing expressed support for an appeal by the religious community to regulate its own affairs. This week’s verbal responses by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) […]
By AE Media Meet Theuns Pauw who has stepped into the big shoes of AE founder Michael Cassidy as South African team leader of the influential evangelism ministry he established 57 years ago. African Enterprise (AE), the ministry founded by Michael Cassidy in 1961, has recently appointed a new leader […]
Cape Town Christians are invited to join in a 24 hour time of prayer from the evening of Friday February 9 to Saturday February 10 to “cry, weep, mourn, wail and wait on Elohim for the heavens that have been closed for the past three years in Cape Town (2 […]
Originally published in God Reports A message from one of the last two untranslated Dead Sea Scrolls may contain a clue to help Bible scholars reconstruct the chronology of Jesus’ final week on earth. Researchers at the University of Haifa have pieced together and translated 42 encoded fragments of a […]
Originally published in Breaking Israel News A hailstorm last week that partially resembled one of 10 plagues of Egypt in the Biblical Passover story was a blessing to the drought-stricken South African province of Northern Cape, in what The South African dubbed to have been “a miracle rainstorm.” The town […]
Oorspronklik gepubliseer in GrensPos – Nr 2 25 Januarie 2018 (NGK Ooskaap nuusbrief) Gustav Claassen, algemene sekretaris van die algemene sinode, vertel van ‘n ontmoeting tussen afgevaardigdes van die algemene sinode en die EFF: In ‘n poging om met politieke partye en ander rolspelers in gesprek te tree en ons […]
Originally published in ACNS The Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has paid tribute to the legendary trumpeter and anti-apartheid campaigner Hugh Masekela, who died on Tuesday at the age of 78. He was described in one obituary as “one of the world’s finest and most distinctive horn players, whose […]
For those who believe in unicorns, understanding the complexities of the transgender issues that are currently making headlines across the world will be a walk in the park. For the rest of us, this issue has come out of nowhere in the past two years and was put firmly in […]
“The more prayer the better but it’s not from me!” said farmer-evangelist Angus Buchan today in response to a viral social media message purporting to be a call from him for Christians throughout South Africa to pray on Wednesday (January 24 2018) for rain in the Western Cape. “We are […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor A Nigerian university student who converted from Islam to Christianity has been arrested by state security forces, as has the man who introduced her to Christianity. Nabila Umar Sanda, 19, is a student at Bingham University in Karu, in the central state of Nasarawa, […]