South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
At 8pm last Sunday night five exhausted men wheeled a heavy wooden cross onto the old Beit Bridge on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border at the end of a 2 000km pilgrimage walk that started in Cape Town. Reini Coetzee, the visionary of the journey, who together with fellow East Londoner, […]
Originally published in Christian Today Christians are being called to pray for their fellow believers living in persecution hotspots after last Sunday’s bomb attack on an Indonesian cathedral. The blast in Makassar injured 20 worshippers as they were leaving a Palm Sunday service held at the start of Holy Week. […]
South African Christians are invited to join the newly-launched Government Prayer Network, says Janet Brann-Hollis of SA Back to God. She says the initiative has been started in response to a pressing need for the ecclesia to take up its mandate to pray strategically for the birthing of a new […]
The annual Christian Women in Business Network (CWBN) Conference will take place virtually on April 16 and 17. “The theme for this year’s conference is: ‘Rise, let’s go from here’ and emphasises the importance of gaining our space in the marketplace with authenticity and boldly applying our skills, talents and […]
The government is open to exploring new, collaborative approaches to agriculture and land reform, said Dr Arno van Niekerk of Project SA, after a meeting with Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Thokozile Didiza in Pretoria yesterday evening. He said God’s presence was tangible during the meeting between […]
The South African Council of Churches this week expressed concern at reports that government is considering stricter coronavirus lockdown regulations over the weekend and in Cape Town this morning a group of pastors are marching to Parliament to demand that churches be allowed to operate at full capacity. Last week, […]
This week Gateway News received an email with the subject “Letter to the editor — Parishioners against church lockdowns”. I read the letter, which points out illogicalities in lockdown regulations regarding church gatherings and raises questions on appropriate church responses to the rules. We have previously reported on responses to […]
The 6th annual United Prayer for South Africa (Up3SA) prayer event will take place from 7am to 8am on Sunday March 28, says founder Robbie Black For the last few years more than 250 towns/prayer groups joined in the initiative and “we are trusting the Lord for increased numbers and […]
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng did nothing wrong from a biblical, constitutional or political point of view when he spoke about Israel during a webinar last June, said ACDP president Rev Kenneth Meshoe today. “That is why we are convinced he is going to win his appeal,” he said in a […]
Religious leaders on Wednesday night called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to open up religious gatherings to 50% of the capacity of venues, says Advocate Nadene Badenhorst, legal counsel of Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) in a video report back. Badenhorst said the gathering, called by the president ahead […]