South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Athenkosi Mpiti, a 22 year old speech-language therapist at the Klerksdorp Hospital is running in the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon on Sunday to raise funds to attend a discipleship training school in Hawaii next year. She said she asked God to rekindle the fire she once had and in her […]
Originally published In News 24 Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Executive Mayor Gary van Niekerk and partners under the banner of a city-Church coalition called One People, One Vision: Healing Our Bay raised a R20 000 reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of the murderer(s) of Sophie Erasmus (89). The […]
The Kouga municipality is hosting an interdenominational time of thanksgiving for rain at the Kouga Dam from 2pm to 4.30pm on Sunday October 29. The dam, which is the largest water storage dam supplying the Kouga and Nelson Mandela Bay municipalities, began to overflow on September 29 after more than […]
Christians from all over South Africa, who responded to a call to unite for change in the country, gathered for a weekend of intense worship, prayer, strategic input and planning at the Time2Rise event outside of Bloemfontein. Economist and marketplace Christian leader Dr Arno van Niekerk, who facilitated the weekend’s […]
Next year – the 30th year of South Africa’s democracy – the nation will cross over into its divine destiny, former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng told a Christian gathering outside Bloemfontein on Saturday. Mogoeng, who was the keynote speaker at the nation-building Time2Rise event on Wilde Als farm also said […]
Last week I published a short update from Israel from Vivienne Myburgh national director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), South Africa, who was leading a tour group of South Africans at a joyful Feast of Tabernacles celebration. Little did either of us suspect that the next week we […]
Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) leader Archbishop Thabo Mokgoba “has, in my opinion, discredited and jeopardised his chances of being a credible mediator in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by taking sides with one against the other”, said ACDP leader Rev Kenneth Meshoe. Meshoe was responding to a October 28 decision […]
A video of a rare moment in world rugby — when Springbok and Tonga players huddled together in a circle and then knelt and prayed together after their bruising pool match last Sunday — has touched millions of people on social media and even non-believers were positively moved. The 49-18 […]
An army of prophetic artists is rising, says Bloemfontein artist Marzanne Slabbert. who has gathered creatives from all nine provinces of South Africa to participate in the Time2Rise event outside Bloemfontein at the weekend where Christians are uniting to seek solutions for the nation. She said 23 prophetic artists [see list […]
A decision by the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) to declare Israel an apartheid state “is highly concerning” as it “portrays a false view of the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel,” says Bafana Modise, head of communications at South African Friends of Israel (SAFI). In the resolution passed […]