On days when events that shape the course of our history take place, it always seems to be just an ordinary day like many others, with the sun rising and going down in the same direction. It is always when we look back that we begin to appreciate the magnitude […]
The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States has triggered racial justice protests across America and in many nations, including South Africa. A former Anglican Bishop of Port Elizabeth, Eric Pike, has been moved by the tragic incident to write a prayer which is published […]
Brenda of the Daughters of Eersteriver (DOER) group, filed this report on a Pentecost prayer walk last Sunday in Eersterivier, Cape Town It was just after 6.30am when the first prayer warriors arrived at the Total Fuel station on Stratford Ave, Eersteriver. Very quickly it was just red everywhere you […]
By FOR SA Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) has written to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to request clarification on the Directions relating to Norms and Standards for Religious Gatherings issued on May 28. The letter thanks government for rightly considering the submissions […]
Prominent prayer leaders, church leaders, activists and marketplace Christian leaders appear in a video calling on South Africa Christians to get behind a grassroots movement of prayer walking during lockdown exercise time. The street prayer movement began in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town early this month and spread rapidly to other […]
“Testimonies are coming in fast and furious” says Angus Buchan of how lives of people around the world were turned around by Jesus through a simple Gospel message the farmer-evangelist preached from his KwaZulu-Natal farm during the virtual Global Mighty Men Conference last Saturday. At the outset of his sermon […]
Chris van der Burgh, a 32-year-old Christian filmmaker from Salt Rock on the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphin coast had a 45-minute encounter with Jesus in the early hours of the morning of Monday May 11 that left him literally shaking, drenched in perspiration and with the responsibility to share a message from […]
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) has welcomed the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that from June 1, religious leaders will be recognised as essential religious frontline workers for purposes of spiritual counselling and that churches and other places of worship may resume services limited to a maximum of […]
In a special live broadcast this evening President Cyril Ramaphosa made two announcements that will surely be seen by many Christians as an answer to prayer. He said that with effect from June 1 — the day that South Africa moves from level 4 to level 3 lockdown restrictions — […]
The ongoing wave of prayer walking that started in the Western Cape earlier this month has inspired a community in Bloemfontein to start weekly “revival prayer walks” from 6.30am to 9pm on Sundays. Alerting Gateway News about their first revival prayer walk in Heidedal, Bloemfontein last Sunday, Pastor Rehana Wales of Beauty […]