South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Compiled from reports in Times Live and Breitbart Cape Town’s name is attached to a worldwide campaign to re-establish the traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilisation. Saturday’s (December 17 2016) launch of the International Organisation for the Family’s Cape Town Declaration marks the beginning of a year-long campaign […]
Meet Lucky Mbiko, the man at the helm of Christian television network TBN in Africa Luckly Khayalethu Mbiko remembers a time when he was about eight-years-old and he was standing in the fields looking after his grandmother’s cattle and wondering if there was anything for him beyond the mountains he […]
[notice]Sharlene Stafford, 34, of Pietermaritzburg experienced a taste of hell and a touch of heaven 20 years ago. Since then, Sharlene, who teaches dance and drama at her local church, has shared her powerful healing testimony all over the country. But until now she has never published her story. She […]
You were born for a time such as this! If people who attended the Sacred Assembly from different congregations, denominations, social circumstances and race groups, but from the same towns, could have follow-up gatherings to ascertain what the Sacred Assembly means for their district and seek to work out the […]
Judgment prevented ‘tragic social experiment’ The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein yesterday (Tuesday December 6 2016) overturned a potentially far-reaching court order granting the medical profession permission to assist in the death of a terminal cancer patient, Robin Stransham-Ford. The successful appeal by the state against the judgment of the Gauteng […]
[notice] Former South African cricket captain and later evangelist Trevor Goddard died last Friday (November 25 2016) after a long illness. David Melvill writes this tribute to the great all-rounder. [/notice] Trevor Goddard is arguably one of South Africa’s finest cricketers, but he would not wish to be known as […]
Originally published in news24 The Limpopo High Court has granted an interdict against the ‘Doom prophet’. Limpopo Health Department spokesperson Derrick Kganyago says the department has been granted an interdict by the Limpopo High Court to stop the “Doom prophet” Lethebo Rabalago from spraying poisonous insecticide on his congregation. The […]
In response to a flood of emails from concerned Christians the Department of Justice has extended the deadline for comments on the Hate Crimes Bill from December 1 2016 to January 31 2017. In the short video clip below Family Policy Institute Errol Naidoo interviews Steve Swart ACDP MP and […]
Guidelines on what churches can do about religious freedom threat now It seems extremely doubtful whether legislation proposed by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Commission) to regulate religion in South Africa will see the light of day, says […]
A SPAR store in Cape Town has been getting a lot of reaction this week to its two large banners and other signage proclaiming Christ as the true reason for Christmas, reports Kaylynne Bantom of Tygerberg 104 FM. “At the end of the day I believe we must proclaim the […]