South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Operation Mobilisation (OM) Dale Rhoton founded the organisation along with George Verwer and served for the rest of his life, including 40 years with OM’s Ship Ministry. Dale Rhoton, a pioneering missionary and a co-founder of Operation Mobilisation, passed away in his sleep on Sunday at a retirement community in […]
African Enterprise (AE) mission teams were granted rare access to two royal palaces during a five-day evangelism outreach held in Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, from April 29 to May 3. The outreach, titled “Mission Royale”, formed part of AE South Africa’s broader evangelistic ministry and focused on engaging communities throughout Nongoma — […]
Bullying, drug and alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancies, gender-based violence, gangsterism, peer pressure, low self esteem and a sense of hopelessness – these are some of the issues facing children daily at many South African schools. In the Eastern Cape there are teams of adults who love young people and God […]
Sixty nations uniting churches, pastors and believers across the world are participating in the Baptize the World day on Sunday, which will see thousands of believers publicly declaring their faith in Jesus through water baptism. The organisers say the global event will feature a livestream from the Museum of the […]
John Mathuhle founding leader of political party Hope4SA has returned to focusing on his primary calling – reconciliation, he told Gateway News in an interview. He said that after sensing early last year that God was reminding him of his first calling, “which I had almost neglected because I was […]
Former CRL Rights Commission Section 22 committee chairperson Professor Musa Xulu released a press statement this week in which he says state-security structures may be investigating Christians and organisations “opposing the CRL chairperson’s agenda”. Xulu, who resigned in January as chairperson of the Section 22 committee on Christian sector abuses, […]
Rescue South Africa Civil Rights Alliance (RSACRA) a non profit committed to defending the rights of South African citizens, lodged a case in the North Gauteng High Court today challenging the constitutionality of South Africa’s race-based laws. “This constitutes the first of several High Court cases RSACRA will file to […]
The Constitutional Court judgement concerning the Phala Phala matter is “a welcome development against the culture of impunity”, says the South African Council of Churches in a media statement released on Friday. “As the SACC, we view this as consistent with the commitment made by national church leaders through the […]
By Open Doors Southern Africa Focus falls on the persecution of Christians The ministry organisation Open Doors Africa is having its annual event to commemorate Persecution Sunday on May 31. This event aims to get churches and other Christian organisations involved in raising awareness about the plight of persecuted Christians […]
From May 3 to 7 delegates from 27 African nations and five countries beyond this continent came to Stellenbosch for the third Africa International Prayer Connect (IPC) summit under the theme “His Name Shall Be Great Among the Nations”. A significant feature of IPC is close collaboration between prayer networks […]