South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
With more than 10 congregations in every ward of Nelson Mandela Bay, pastors and congregants can make a real difference in restoring services to the metro, says the NMB Church Leader Network (NMBCLN) in an email appeal to local church leaders. “We encourage all our church leaders to team up […]
Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) says it is concerned that while the health minister repealed certain Covid-19 regulations yesterday, the disease remains a category-2 notifiable condition. In a press release today, FOR SA notes that despite the lifting of Regulations 16A through 16C of the Health Regulations Amendment, […]
Amidst reports of dam levels plummeting, taps beginning to run dry in the Nelson Mandela Bay region, and various emergency measures mounted to provide water to citizens, two special calls to prayer were released in the last few days. The ACDP called on Christians to join its online “Let it […]
On Wedensday Etheline Wiese answered a call for believers to pray at Nelson Mandela Bay’s reservoirs as taps have begun to run dry in the drought-stricken metro. She shares how this simple act of faith led to a divine encounter It is Day Zero in our Beloved City, Gqeberha. Tap […]
The Constitutional Court has found that the Births and Death Registration Act (BADRA) does not prohibit the burial of the remains of a child that died in the womb during the first 26 weeks of intra-uterine existence. However, in its ruling handed down on Wednesday, the court overturned a High Court […]
Growing up in Soweto, Johannesburg, Jabu Ndaba and his boyhood friends admired older, violent, neighbourhood criminals who hijacked cars and trucks. He says they started stealing from shops at an early age. “Sometimes we got arrested. They spanked us, then released us.” Later Jabu and his friends graduated to stealing […]
It is time for church leaders and Christian citizens in Nelson Mandela Bay to stop just talking about the ongoing service delivery crisis and to take action to “take our city back”, said Trevor Jennings of the NMB Church Leaders Network. He was speaking to Gateway News this week ahead […]
Neziswa Kanju spoke to endurance swimmer Sarah Ferguson about the faith dimension behind her pioneering extreme swimming exploits to raise awareness of ocean pollution. In early April she completed the first 760km of her toughest challenge yet — the “One Ocean Swim”, a 1 500km swim from Durban to Cape […]
Terry Gibbon, 55 achieved his goal last Saturday of breaking the world record for doing the most full sit-ups in an hour — but it proved tougher than he had anticipated. “I was confident from the start that I would make that record because I overachieved in training. But during […]
Three decades ago a young South African pastor’s mindset was radically shifted during a visit to Phola Phola township in Thokoza, Alberton, where he saw young children lying on the ground, passed out as a result of malnutrition. In an interview with Gateway News Pastor Bert Pretorius who was starting […]
