South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Medical care is a challenge for the rural community of Hankey in the Eastern Cape where most people work long hours on farms and rarely get days off to attend to their health needs. For this reason local clinics are open at weekends but are still unable to attend to […]
If you were to visit Retail Park shopping mall in Boksburg at 7.30am any morning you would see a surprising sight — about 40 uniformed men lined up in three rows like soldiers on a parade ground. These men “under the command” of their elected leader Mucha Sithole are indeed […]
The first-ever Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation (CESE) Africa Summit took place in Pretoria from September 20 to 22. The three-day programme was filled with invigorating, terrifying, sobering, and hopeful presentations on the why, what and how we can bring to an end the scourge of sexual abuse and exploitation […]
Hundreds of Christians gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria today to launch the Tshwane-Jerusalem Declaration and to pray for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and its minister Naledi Pandor to support peace in the Middle East. Members of the crowd, which included many pastors, proudly waved […]
South African evangelism ministry In His Name Ministries reports back on their recent ground-breaking campaign in eastern Ethiopia We started building our relationships with the evangelical fellowships of Dire Dawa and Harar in August of last year, when we included these cities among those we visited to distribute the Amharic […]
Last week we shared Vareena Swihart’s amazing testimony about her Africa revival vision and her connection with the venue of Saturday’s Speak Jesus prayer day. Vareena, a South African who has lived in the US for 34 years, and her husband, Steve, flew to SA to attend the event in […]
Brother Andrew, whose clandestine Bible deliveries behind the Cold War Iron Curtain earned him the title of “God’s smuggler” and who launched a global organisation supporting persecuted Christians, died yesterday at his home in Harderwijk, Netherlands. Brother Andrew, whose given name was Andrew van der Bijl, was 94 years old. […]
I just want to speak the name of Jesus Over every heart and every mind‘Cause I know there is peace within Your presence I speak JesusI just want to speak the name of Jesus ‘Til every dark addiction starts to breakDeclaring there is hope and there is freedomI speak Jesus‘Cause Your name is power […]
In the densely-populated, poor and crime-ridden Gauteng township of Diepsloot, God spoke to the heart of a senior city academic, Dr Darlingtong Mushongera, to use music to uplift people and win souls for the Kingdom of God. “My prayer to God is to use music to draw them closer to […]
Update on the Hate Speech Bill by Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network Yesterday, the Department of Justice updated Parliament on their responses to submissions for the Hate Speech Bill. They are proposing up to five years jail sentence for what they call “hate speech”. Currently, the former leader of the […]