South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
About 82 Christian leaders across the country participated in an “excellent” national consultation on blessing the new season of working together in South Africa, said the campaign visionary, Pastor Segun Olanipekun. He said the multiracial gathering of leaders agreed on the themes for prayer gatherings around SA yesterday, ahead of […]
Gerda Potgieter reports on the pioneering work of Lidia Dube, a community builder who initiated an influential youth conference which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary Lidia Dube is a community builder who has a heart for young people, for the helpless and for the Lord. She has done pioneering work […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Former President Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican Party nomination for President last night, less than a week after surviving an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Near the end of his acceptance speech he said: “Just a few short days ago, […]
By Tali Feinberg, orginally published in South African Jewish Report Local non-governmental organisation Citizens For Integrity (CFI) has taken Cricket South Africa (CSA) to court over its decision to strip Jewish cricketer David Teeger of his captaincy of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup (U19 CWC) team on January 12. The […]
“The Church must teach South Africa God’s Kingdom culture of love, peace, racial integration, and forgiveness. A teaching priesthood (apostolic and prophetic) must take responsibility for instructing South Africans in the ways of the Almighty God” Extract from invitation to national consultation on blessing SA and GNU South African Christians […]
South Africa got a reprieve from the threat of legalised prostitution in June last year when the government withdrew its “Prostitution Bill” because of concerns about its constitutionality. Will SA’s lawmakers take note of a major new UN report which finds that prostitution is a system of gruesome violence and […]
What if 2.5 billion Christians on Earth could be mobilised to share the Gospel? That is the goal of Gather25, a global initiative to gather 2.5 billion Christ followers around the world on March 1 next year to pray, worship, repent, and mobilise believers to reach the 5.5 billion yet-to-be-saved […]
Originally published in Church Times THE Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) took steps during its gathering in Cairo this month to become “a well-structured home for orthodox Anglicans worldwide”, a communiqué says. The GSFA’s first assembly under its new “covenental” structure ended on 15 June, and was attended […]
When Jessamy Southern first had thoughts about starting a prayer initiative and mentioned the idea to her husband, Rob, she decided to put the thought on the shelf for “maybe another time”. But she said the idea wouldn’t stay on the shelf and now, the couple, who lead a healing […]
Everybody who stops is offered prayer and the love of Jesus It’s called the “Lorraine Prayer Drive Thru” but the name doesn’t do justice to what Jesus has been doing through a group of volunteers in a roadside park in Gqeberha since August last year. “It actually seldom happens that […]