“Last year was the worst year in modern history for Christian persecution throughout the world. With this in mind the ACDP notes that religion and belief are conspicuous by their absence in the title of today’s debate,” ACDP MP Cheryllyn Dudley said in parliament this week. Speaking in the Human Rights Day debate she […]
South Africa
ACDP welcomes hard-hitting Al Bashir judgment by SCA
ACDP MP and member of the Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee, Steven Swart, on Tuesday (March 15, 2016) welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment dismissing government’s appeal and finding that its failure to arrest Sudanese President, Omar Al Bashir, was unlawful. Bashir whose regime is implicated in […]
International investors visit SA to boost Kingdom-minded businesses
Over the past week an international team of Christian investors has been in South Africa looking for businesses that are viable and have the potential to make a significant impact for the kingdom of God. First SA investor trip The first South African investor trip under the auspices of Business […]
Bill Hybels hosting leadership coaching events in SA in May
Bill Hybels will be hosting ‘Leadership Matters’ coaching events in South Africa in May during a five weeks visit to five African nations that have embraced the annual Global Leadership Summit (GLS). He will be in Cape Town on May 4, Durban on May 5 and Pretoria on May 6 […]
BDS claims make mockery of SA struggle, says Olga Meshoe
Israel pursuing closer relations with Africa Calling Israel an apartheid state trivialises what black South Africans endured under that system, says Olga Meshoe, daughter of African Christian Democratic Party president, Rev Kenneth Meshoe, in a recent appearance on CBN’s 700 Club. For the past two years, as the COO of […]
Man survives lightning strike after wife, passerbys offer prayers
A miracle happened along a road in the foothills of the Drakensberg, near Bergville, on Monday (February 29, 2016) when an Alberton man who went down after being directly struck by lightning “came back by the grace of God.” Gwen McKechnie, who was on a 24th wedding anniversary getaway with […]
Hope in Christ amidst campus turmoil
Call to follow Jesus path of reconciliation Violence, destruction of millions of rands of property, and racial animosity flared on university campuses in North West, Free State, Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal this week amidst protests by students and workers over a range of issues. During the same week […]
My experience of unrest on campus — A UFS student
Gateway News Volunteer Reporter Claire Sally Roos caught up with a friend who studies at the University of the Free State and asked her some questions (see below) regarding what she experienced. Claire writes: “What I gleaned from her replies is that age-old truth that sometimes it takes some form […]
Angus urges Mighty Men organisers to win souls for God’s kingdom
10 conferences taking place in southern Africa during 2016 Returning to Angus Buchan’s farm, Shalom, where the Mighty Men Conferences (MMC) started, for the first time since the last MMC was held there in 2010 brought back rich memories, was fortuitous, and served to encourage and enlighten the Karoo Mighty […]
Men and women invited to join exciting prayer journey
KMMC 40 ‘Days of Prayer’ to end with ‘National Day of Prayer and Fasting for Freedom’ on April 27 One of the most exciting developments of the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2016 (KMMC 2016) includes women as important partners. It is a call to prayer – to intercede on behalf […]