South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in God Reports The photo of an Arizona couple’s baby reaching from the womb during a C-section and grabbing the doctor’s finger has gone viral, according to a story by azfamily.com. Perhaps it’s no coincidence the baby’s name is ‘Nevaeh’ – Heaven spelled backward. Several staff at the […]
Holy Mass will be celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral, Cape Town at 13:10 on Friday, February 1, 2013 to mark the passing of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act on February 1,1997, and to pray for a change of heart on the part of all who disregard the rights […]
A growing group of men and women from many walks of life is getting behind a vision to build a giant cross opposite Van Stadens Bridge to give motorists hope in their daily lives and to deter suicide jumps off the bridge. Jeffreys Bay publisher, Robbie Hift, who is mobilising […]
A Pretoria High Court Judge ruled yesterday that it is no longer a criminal offence for children aged between 12 and 16 to engage in consensual sexual activities with each other. Judge Pierre Rabie’s ruling follows an application last April by the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children, supported by […]
Few days left for public to comment TopTV is at it again: attempting to launch porn channels a year after its first bid failed. And Christian family values organisation, Family Policy Institute (FPI) has called on the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to deny TopTV’s latest application, saying […]
Open Doors publishes 50 worst persecutors list Persecution of Christians in Africa enormously increased in 2012, according to the Open Doors 2013 World Watch List of the 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. Countries on the African continent sharply increased on the World Watch List, due […]
[notice]Here are links to 12, memorable good news stories — one for each month — that appeared in Gateway News in 2012. [/notice] JANUARY Irish builders making school dream come true – Cheerful Irish volunteers defy a PE heatwave to help local Christian project make a difference in education. FEBRUARY […]
Hope that justice will be done for home-improvement-fiasco victims before Christmas Will 43 Port Elizabeth families who are the victims of a RDP-rectification project gone wrong be able to move back into their houses before Christmas? Will they be compensated for their floors and furniture that have been damaged during […]
South African church leaders have made conflicting statements on Israel over the past 10 days, highlighting the widely different positions held by SA Christians on the Holy Land conflict. A group of church leaders led by Bishop Zipho Siwa, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa, has […]
Originally published in News 24 Mainstream Anglican Christians in Zimbabwe are returning to their cathedral after a lockout of more than five years staged by an excommunicated, breakaway bishop who claimed loyalty to President Robert Mugabe’s party and used loyalist police to keep people away. Worshippers from across the country […]