South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
This is the story of the “miracle safari” – a recent 4 200km mission-impossible road trek from Johannesburg to Mombasa, to meet a tight business deadline. But, to appreciate this prayer-powered story, we need to step back more than 40 years to the day that Steve Kalue was born in […]
By Open Doors SA It is estimated that for one in every 12 Christians around the world,persecution is a daily reality –they endure intimidation, prison and even death because of their faith. During 2016, Open Doors distributed 2.5 million Bibles and Christian literature worldwide, trained a million people and provided […]
Religious communities should take up an invitation by a parliamentary committee to comment on a report calling for regulation of religion in South Africa, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in an urgent update emailed to its constituents today. If religious leaders do not respond promptly to the CRL […]
In the book of Esther, God shows that He created each one of us for a specific purpose, calling us to act with courage and boldness in a specific time. Rachel Katlego Mathebe, the speaker of the City of Tshwane council is a devoted Christian who makes no apologies for her […]
Last Sunday, on a cold and wintry Cape Town day, I visited a church that started under a tree at the Brackenfell Station in July 2010. We visited the congregation — still known as Church Under The Tree or Lazarus Ministries – where the members, who include many homeless people, […]
Janet Brann-Hollis of SA Back to God (SABTG) says she was led to issue a special call to prayer for July after she was awoken by the presence of God showing her to pray against calculated plans aimed at devastating various sectors of the nation. She urges Christians to join in […]
Durban Christian Centre hopes to start on their new building in October this year. The DCC Jesus Dome, an iconic feature of the Durban skyline, was destroyed by fire on June 7 last year. Since then church has been holding services in a 2 500-seater tent pitched in the parking […]
Parliamentary portfolio committees this week heard the conflicting views of the CRL Rights Commission and the religious sector — represented by Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) — on how to deal with commercialisation of religion and other abuses in the religious arena. At a workshop at parliament on Tuesday […]
Inspirational athlete and outspoken Jesus-follower Wayde van Niekerk, 24, did it again — as he set a new world-best time for the 300m at the Ostrava Golden Spike yesterday, surpassing world-bests by Michael Johnson for the second time in less than a year. His 30.81 seconds at Ostrava broke Johnson’s […]
Ntomboxolo Matiwane asked Port Elizabeth businessman and former school friend Thamsanqa Ngamlana to share his testimony. This is his emotional rollercoaster of a story. Having been raised by a single parent under challenging circumstances I will not lie and say I was never a happy child. I had been taught […]