South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in News 24 A little more than a month after a virtual prayer session was held for founder of the Missionvale Care Centre, Sister Ethel Normoyle who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, passed away in Dublin, Ireland. Sister Ethel, as she was affectionately known by many, returned […]
It’s been going since 1977 and has reached 26 million people worldwide who have participated in its unique series of interactive sessions where people get to explore faith in Jesus in a friendly, open and welcoming environment. That is Alpha, the hugely successful and highly relational evangelistic course that traditionally […]
Church leaders and Christians are planning to stage a mass gathering on the lawns of the Union Buildings in Pretoria from 10am on Sunday to protest against the unfair treatment of the Church under lockdown which they see as an attack on Christianity. “We are going there to defend the […]
South African Friends of Israel and the Israeli Ministry of Education are hosting the first National Bible Contest South Africa which will test contestants’ knowledge of the Tanakh (Old Testament). SA Torah enthusiast Oded Dumah who was instrumental in bringing the contest to South Africa said winners of the quiz […]
By Gerda-Marie, Dare To Love — originally published in Joy!News Dare to Love spent Saturday last week rebuilding and equipping the community of Mooi River. This town in KwaZulu-Natal was the epicentre of the chaos that left South Africans in shock three weeks ago. Several shops were looted, vandalised and some of […]
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 […]