Organisations opposed to human trafficking protested outside the gates of Parliament in Cape Town yesterday to draw attention to the long delay in finalising legislation to protect vulnerable women and children from traffickers. About 50 representatives of STOP, Justice Acts, Not for Sale, Straatwerk, the National Freedom Network and the […]
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How one brave pastor is fighting child slavery
By J Lee Grady — Originally published in Charisma News My friend Bruce Ladebu is a pastor, but he has never been comfortable behind a desk or a pulpit. A former adventurer who has explored Arctic islands and tracked timberwolves in the Canadian Rockies, he prefers to take his faith […]
Zimbabwe nuns, priests, evicted, orphanage seized
By Associated Press — Originally pubished in The Guardian Zimbabwe’s top Anglican bishop says a breakaway church leader close to the country’s president has taken over an orphanage home to 80 children. Bishop Chad Gandiya, leader of the mainstream Anglican group, says the breakaway leader also has seized mission schools […]
PE school testifies to power of prayer days for matrics
[notice]NMB Metro Prayer Day organisers encouraged by testimony of local school[/notice] A Port Elizabeth school’s matric pass rate improved from 57% to 73% after its Grade 12 learners participated in a community prayer day event in 2008. The school also enjoyed valuable educational and business spinoffs arising from the prayer […]
Global Leadership Summit profiles: 8 & 9/12
[notice]It is 3 weeks to the launch of the 2011 Global Leadership Summit (GLS) in South Africa. Today we profile the 8th and 9th profiles of the 12 expert speakers who will challenge and inspire summit delegates around the world with the end goal of empowering local churches to transform […]
“Happy Birthday to me!” — piperjames
Piperjames (James McGowan) turned 50 today as he celebrated another landmark on his 1 500 km solo, Mighty Men trek from Cape Town to Mooi River in KwaZulu-Natal. “I am on the border of Lesotho, staying here for the weekend,” he says in a message to Gateway News readers. “Today […]
Bakkies miraculously healed — De Villiers
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers said that Bakkies Botha’s return from injury to play in tomorrow’s Pool D World Cup clash against Fiji is one of the greatest miracles he has seen in a long time. In an interview with Radio Tygerberg News, De Villiers said that as a Christian […]
NMB Metro Prayer Day steps up a gear
Planning for the historic Metro Prayer Day in the 48 000-capacity Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium stepped up a gear this week as organisers confirmed that the event will start at 2pm on Saturday, October 22. As the NMB Metro Prayer Day campaign gathers momentum, a mighty mushroom cloud of prayer […]
“Prayer mushrooms” springing up all over SA
[notice]In this guest writer feature, Helen Phillips, Cape Town author of “Fly With Me” — an account of her healing from multiple sclerosis — and part-time Christian radio presenter, shares a testimony of how God gave her a vision of mushrooms that is finding fulfilment in strategic prayer groups that […]
Homeless need to be heard, says shelter administrator
Sometimes it takes an effort to listen to the stories of the destitute people who take refuge from the streets in the Metro Evangelical Services (MES) shelter in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, says administrator Ian Landman. But every one of the homeless people who ends up in this shelter for any […]