South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Dr Ruben Richards reflects on the spiritual significance of an event he witnessed last week when members of the Citrusdal Khoisan community washed the feet of a White commercial farmer, Tobias Basson and apologised to him for their racism towards Whites. Twelve years earlier, after he accepted Jesus at a […]
Diepsloot Pastors Forum and South African Police Service hosted a prayer session at a mall in Diepsloot, Johannesburg on July 18 as part of a National Day of Prayer, according to a report published in Midrand Reporter today. A senior pastor at Almighty Christian Church in Diepsloot, Eliot Chiworeka, said […]
Rebuilding the Walls of South Africa is the theme for an upcoming online conference which is the third of three strategic conferences the Lord instructed us to host two weeks apart from each other. The event, which will be hosted on Saturday August 14 from 6pm to 8pm (South African […]
While we are on the brink of the fourth quarter of 2021, both a backward glance and one into the near future, could bring the same musing — how to be a good steward of that with which the Lord has blessed us? (I Timothy 6: 18-19) To everyone who […]
The United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons was marked last Friday (August 30) with the launch of a theme that victims of human trafficking at the centre of the campaign and highlights the importance of listening to and learning from survivors of human trafficking. According to a human […]
“What can we do to help?” Kent and Lyndall Vanderyacht asked after they got over the initial shock of looting that had broken out in their area days before and their hearts went out to people in a nearby township left without food and hope. The next morning — the […]
Originally published in Jewish Report “What do you do when the leadership of an organisation you’ve spent your whole working life serving adopts a policy or position that your conscience won’t tolerate?” asks Reverend John Atkinson. He is one of four local Anglican Church ordained ministers who recently spoke out […]
Adapted from original story in Faithwire South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker today claimed SA’s first gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics as she won the women’s 200m breaststroke final on Friday, smashing the world record in the process. Swimming in lane 4, the 24-year-old swimming star timed her race perfectly, sitting behind […]
Just over a fortnight ago Port Elizabeth couple Cornel and Pierre Havenga launched “We Care”, a campaign that was birthed to show passionate, hard-working hospital staff that people care about the stress and exhaustion and personal struggles they endure in this pandemic season. The campaign enables citizens and organisations to […]
Over the past few weeks, our nation, South Africa, has been reeling from much violence, looting, and criminality that took place after former President Zuma’s incarceration. The nation was left reeling socially, economically, and otherwise, after weeks of unbridled rampages, rebellion, and anarchy. Estimated damageShopping malls have been burnt down […]