South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
There has been a sudden increase in participation in the Jericho Walls ’7 days on the wall’ campaign for non-stop prayer for revival, salvation and social justice throughout 2013 says Daniel Brink, National Coordinator of the Initiative. Over the first six months of this year 169 groups/churches have registered for initiative, […]
By Graham Ries, the event organiser On September 21 several volunteers will treat 200 (or more) broken and homeless people in Port Elizabeth to a day of royal pampering. The guests at the so-called Matthew Lunch will be collected by bus from various pick-up points in the city and taken […]
[notice]RUTHI VAN DER MERWE het Johnny Louw se Karoo uitreikings die afgelope week in Middelburg en omgewing bygewoon. Sy sê die evangelis het ʼn groot indruk op die Karoomense gemaak en sal ons verseker nie weer dieselfde wees nie. Sy deel haar indrukke van die geseënde week.[/notice] Wat ʼn week […]
Originally published in The Christian Post On the world’s largest social media site a controversial group page accused of being hateful toward Christian belief has been taken down. “Virgin Mary Should’ve Aborted,” which had at its peak about 6,800 likes, was taken down Wednesday likely in response to complaints from […]
God has given the ailing Nelson Mandela to the nation as a “message for this moment” say South African Church leaders who met in Pretoria yesterday to consider the state of the Church and the nation. Noting the prayers and good wishes for the former President from all sectors of […]
Cornerstone Christian College in Salt River, Cape Town has introduced a new concept in tertiary education in South Africa, taking quality, affordable higher education to students where they live, in partnership with selected churches. The rollout of the novel Conerstone Learning Community programme (CLC) began in July. Several CLC campuses […]
“When you strike the women, you strike a rock” was the song 20 000 women sang on August 9, 1956 whilst marching to the Union Buildings to voice their protest against the Pass Law. This event made a great impact and ultimately led to the day being commemorated as Women’s […]
African Anglican leader suggests Tutu was paid to support gay agenda Former homosexual and managing director of New Living Way Ministry Andre Bekker has urged South African gay rights activists Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Constitutional Court Judge Edwin Cameron to advocate for the dignity and respect of former homosexuals. In […]
Botswana calls for independent audit of elections The Roman Catholic churches and the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe have asked their followers to wait patiently for talks to resolve outstanding issues and to not be consumed by bitterness that leads to violence. However, the Zimbabwean police, prepared for possible disturbances on […]
Rush-hour commuters at a busy Port Elizabeth intersection were clearly intrigued on Friday afternoon by the sight of a bunch of people getting creative on a billboard. After about 90 minutes of team brushwork, all of which was filmed by a crew from Rooftop Productions, the billboard message was revealed: […]