South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
As women join together in the Karoo town of Middelburg next weekend to seek a closer walk with God they will be encouraged to know that men in the area will be praying continuously for them for 40 hours from 5pm on Friday (January 27) to 9am (January 29) on […]
[notice]Five young men training at OM South Africa and ready to serve the Lord. One crazy, creative idea: What if we get a train pass for Europe and travel to share the Gospel? This was the birth of the Rebirth Experience. This is their story of faith and faithfulness.[/notice] The […]
By Simba Tian — Compass Direct News BWERA, Uganda – A 15-year-old Christian girl in western Uganda who lost the use of her legs after her father locked her in a room for six months for leaving Islam has begun to take tentative steps. Susan Ithungu of Isango village, Kasese district, had […]
Transformational entrepreneur Patrick Kuwana hopes that a marketplace business conference his company is hosting in Johannesburg on February 4 will inspire delegates to apply Biblical principles in the business arena. “It is not a feel good conference. It is an action-oriented conference for people who are hungry to understand their […]
Research shows porn reduces sex crimes, says TopTV The South Gauteng High Court today ruled that pay channel TopTV may not flight three pornographic channels without securing the permission of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa). Icasa brought an urgent court interdict on Friday to stop TopTV owners […]
By Simba Tian — Compass Direct News NAIROBI, Kenya — Far from the world media’s gaze in remote islands off the eastern coast of Africa, church buildings are razed and Christians are ostracized and imprisoned for their faith – leaving one with a skin disease. On Tanzania’s island of Zanzibar, […]
An international team of 46 women — including nine from South Africa — started climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this week to raise awareness and funds to combat slavery. The women are being supported by a 10-woman prayer team, interceding for them at the base of Africa’s highest mountain — the highest […]
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) and TopTV will clash in court tomorrow (Friday, January 13) during the hearing of an urgent interdict filed by Icasa to block the pay TV broadcaster’s pornograhy plans until a public consultation process has taken place. TopTV Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs […]
This week 100 encouraging emails were sent from South Africans to a Christian mother of five who is in a Pakistani prison awaiting her appeal against a death sentence for blasphemy after she was falsely accused of insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The email campaign organisers, In Context Ministries, have […]
All churches in South Africa are encouraged to mark Sanctity Life Sunday on January 29 by “observing a solemn and serious time of repentance and prayer for the national sin of abortion”, says Africa Christian Action (ACA) in a press statement released today. Sanctity Life Sunday falls on the Sunday […]