South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Last Sunday Cape Christians took part in a meeting to pray in solidarity with Jews around the world who were praying together for peace through their coming Messiah. At the Cape event, which was arranged by the David and Jonathan Foundation at the Salem Biblical Garden near Paarl, the gathering […]
Lesedi Community Centre in Heidelberg, Gauteng is doing a remarkable job of uplifting destitute people and uniting citizens in becoming the answer to local challenges. Andre Viljoen spoke to the centre manager Jaco Kritzinger When Jaco Kritzinger suddenly lost his senior corporate management job during a company restructuring in 2018 […]
South African Council of Churches vice president and senior World Council of Churches official, Rev Frank Chikane is at the centre of a media storm over “incendiary” anti-Israel remarks he made during a Zoom webinar on February 6. In his contribution to a webinar to launch a documentary about the […]
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has called on South African faith groups and civil society lobbies to press the SA government to intervene in a Ethiopia where the government is accused of committing war crimes against the people of the northern province of Tigray. Warning that what […]
Episode 6 in a weekly series in which music industry personality and Worship South Africa exco member Julita Kok reports back on a recent SA road trip in which she handed the steering wheel over to Jesus When you travel with God and on His agenda, you are always expectant. […]
Andre Viljoen spoke to Grant Dryden of Farming God’s Way about a new home food production programme called ‘Gardens of Faithfulness’ which is bringing fresh hope across the nation because it is feasible for poor people to undertake and it offers opportunities for churches, NGOs and individuals to make a […]
The pioneering vessel, Logos, and her volunteer crew left a shipyard in Rotterdam on 18 February 1971. They were bound for London, where the refitted ship was shown to supporters of the venture and loaded with literature for her maiden voyage to India. In the five decades since, the ministry’s […]
After months of being cooped up, the David & Jonathan Foundation (D&J) has arranged two upcoming events in the Cape Town region. This Sunday, February 21, at 4pm, the Salem Biblical Garden outside Paarl sees an open air prayer vigil joining with Jewish people worldwide who will be praying at […]
David Melvill writes about the life of husband, father, Christian journalist and missionary to Greece, Nico Bougas, 80, who went to be with the Lord on Wednesday When a spiritual giant such as Nico Bougas dies, we experience mixed feelings of rejoicing and sad loss. Nico has already been crowned […]
Freedom of Religion SA legal counsel Advocate Nadene Badenhorst has written the letter below to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding vaccines: 10 February 2021 Dear President Ramaphosa, RE: Religious / CONSCIENTIOUS concern regarding the use of (historical) abortion-derived fetal cell lines in the development or production of certain COVID-19 vaccines As […]