South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Christian pro-life couple Peter and Terry Throp were ordered to leave a restaurant in Muizenburg, Cape Town today because of objections to anti-abortion messages on their jackets. In an email to Gateway News Peter Throp said that at about 12.30pm today at the Gaslight Café in Muizenberg they were confronted […]
Can a nation turn back to God? The answer is a resounding yes, says Emma van der Walt, pastor and prophetess at Living Word church in Brummeria, Pretoria, who believes the change will come from within our cities. “As I was preparing for a sermon, God spoke to me about […]
Two years ago there were hardly any church leaders speaking out against corruption in government but this week church leaders were at the forefront of marches against corruption throughout the country, ahead of Tuesday’s no-confidence vote which President Jacob Zuma survived by a narrow margin. Nowhere was this remarkable shift […]
FOR SA says schools should not be intimidated into not exercising their rights to practice faith, invite Christian ministries Attorneys acting for the six public schools that were targeted by activist group OGOD over their religious practices have advised that they will not be appealing the judgment delivered by the Johannesburg […]
Since encountering Jesus some four years ago, Hugo Hendriks, 32, of Johannesburg, has pursued the Lord with all his heart. He spent a year as a student at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in California USA, is currently enrolled at Legacy School of Discipleship in Alabama USA, and has […]
The Christian owners of a Cape wedding venue that has been in the news since last week for refusing — on grounds of their deeply-held biblical convictions — to host a same-sex wedding, continues to suffer attacks on social media and threats of legal action. In addition, the Stanford Tourism […]
South Africa was found wanting once before when the wind of change was blowing in Africa. It is happening again now, writes Tshego Motaung. Earlier this year on February 16, I was MC for the Africa Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC) pre-launch event. The event, at the Sandton Shul Hall, […]
Siya has suffered considerable loss, depression, physical deformity, and shame – but it has not stopped the Durban Grade 11 schoolboy from dreaming of becoming a gospel artist. And now he is being given a chance to pursue his goal, thanks to an independent music producer with a God-given calling […]
Pascale Collier, who teaches French at Woodridge College, near Port Elizabeth, believes that prayer and oil anointing played a role in protecting classrooms that were spared when a devastating fire destroyed half the school buildings in early June. She recalls visiting the school after the weekend fire and telling a […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald Fifty years after she was paralysed in a tragic diving accident, Joni Eareckson Tada has reflected on God’s faithfulness — even in the midst of suffering. At just 17 years old, the evangelical author, speaker and radio host was paralysed from the neck down […]