South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The Supreme Court of Appeal’s (SCA) decision on an appeal against a first-0f-its kind order by the High Court in Pretoria allowing assisted suicide will probably be released towards the end of the month, said Philip Rosenthal of Christian View Network. The SCA reserved judgment last Friday (November 4 2016) […]
The CRL Rights Commission has granted a request by religious bodies for more time to respond to its controversial proposals on the regulation of religion. The CRL’s report on the “commercia isation” of religion was published on October 26 and religious bodies were given until November 18 to comment. The […]
Originally published in Anglican Communion News Service. The Bishop of Johannesburg, Dr Steve Moreo, has criticised EFF leader Julius Malema after he appeared to call for the murder of white people. Malema said on Monday (November 7): “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people – at least […]
While it is disturbed by apparent abuses within religious communities, the cure proposed by the CRL Rights Commission — to regulate religious bodies and licence religious practitioners — would be a thousand times worse than the described disease, says the Christian Citizenship Network of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa. Calling on the commission […]
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit’, says the Lord Almighty (Zechariah 4:6) There is both excitement and anxiety concerning the Sacred Assembly, according to Reverend Moss Ntlha, general secretary of the Evangelical Alliance of South Africa and convenor of the committee of Pastors facilitating mobilisation for […]
Originally published by Sowetan Live The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has called for a process similar to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to deal with corruption‚ potentially granting amnesty to those fingered in the state capture report. The organisation of church heads responded to the release of […]
The right of a terminally ill patient to request assisted suicide will be challenged by the Department of Health in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) tomorrow (Friday November 4) in a case arising out of a High Court ruling last year allowing Advocate Robin Stransham-Ford to die with the assistance of […]
See Opinion by Ron Steele This week has seen the State proposing two pieces of legislation which arguably pose one of the greatest threats to religious freedom (including the autonomy of the Church to govern her own affairs) and free speech in South Africa yet! If we do not take […]
On Wednesday (October 26 2016), a day when a student march to parliament ended in violent mayhem after some of the students and police clashed, these University of Stellenbosch students stood on a mountain and prayed life into their campus and town below. The university, about 50km away from troubled campuses […]
Conflict exposes need for discipleship and unity among Christian students Hundreds of students, parents and Christian leaders worshiped God together and prayed together at a joyful, Spirit-filled prayer service at NMMU (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) in Port Elizabeth on Sunday night. For a few precious hours the rainbow nation — […]