South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
School principals say their jobs will be a nightmare if they cannot tell children that sex is against the law A controversial High Court decision to decriminalise sexual activity between adolescent children will be challenged in the Constitutional Court this week. The Christian-based Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA) which […]
Christians from different denominations and groupings participating in a National Day of Prayer on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, gathered in the Soshanguve TUT Stadium, Pretoria, the Good Hope Centre, Cape Town and in churches and homes around the country. At the Soshanguve gathering church leaders repented of their personal sin and the […]
Originally published in eNCA.com A Methodist minister who was fired from her church for marrying her same-sex partner, has taken her fight to be reinstated to the courts. Ecclesia de Lange was ordained as a Minister in the Methodist Church in 1996. She served her congregation in the Cape Twon […]
Originally published in iolnews The Roman Catholic Church has added its powerful voice to the swelling opposition against charging motorists for using South Africa’s freeways, calling the proposed e-tolling “morally unjust”. It urged people into open rebellion by calling on them not to buy e-tags or pay the toll fees. […]
Post-apartheid reforms gave land to the people – but without proper training, says aid worker Originally published in Jerusalem Post With the help of Israeli agricultural expertise and the support of the Roman Catholic Church, a South African NGO is aiming to professionally train rural residents who have become the […]
Oorspronklik gepubliseer in Beeld Die bekende wetenskaplike en kerkman dr. Louw Alberts (89) is gister in Pretoria dood. Alberts was ’n fiskus en onder meer professor aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat en die destydse Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit, visepresident van die Raad vir Atoomkrag, direkteur-generaal van mineraal- en energiesake, en […]
The Western Cape Mighty Men Conference will not take place this year but there will be a conference next year, at a date to be announced later, says MMC Western Cape Chairman Andre Vercuiel. He says the MMC WC that was planned for September 27 to 29 has been postponed […]
[notice]The schools prayer walk movement that began in Port Elizabeth in June last year continues to grow. JOT teacher and coordinator of the movement PAUL CLOUGH (right) filed this remarkable report on a prayer walk by 310 learners at Rowallan Park Primary School on Friday, May 3. The next scheduled […]
When 19-year-old Yushraq Dollie looked at a crowd of nearly 6 000 women at a Cape Town Christian conference where his Muslim mother got ‘saved’, he asked himself: “Where are the men?” That was at the Hillsong Colour Conference in mid April. Little did Dollie know that God was about […]
African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) MP Cheryllyn Dudley says she is hopeful that a recent week-long visit to Israel and Palestine by a Parliamentary group will contribute towards a constructive shift in relations between the South African Government and Israel. She commended the predominantly anti-Israel ANC committee members for withholding […]